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On May 12, 1967, H “Rap” Brown replaced Stokely Carmichael as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. As SNCC’s new chair, Brown was meant to reduce the controversy surrounding the group. Brown, however, encouraged militancy among urban blacks, and soon, a federal campaign against Black militancy severely damaged SNCC’s ability to sustain its organizing efforts.
On June 1, 1909, Ida B. Wells gave a speech at the National Negro Conference, the forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement...
On May 31, 1921, this was the worst riot in American history. 15,000 Blacks were left homeless, between 300 and 3000 were killed, wounded,...
On May 30, 1965, Vivian Malone Jones became the first Black student to graduate from the formerly segregated University of Alabama. She was one...
On May 28, 2014 Maya Angelou, original name Marguerite Annie Johnson (born April 4, 1928, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina).
