This Day in History
On October 18, 1968Bob Beamon beat the World long jump record at 29 ft, 2.5 in at the Mexico City Olympics.
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On October 25, 1940 Benjamin O. Davis became the first Black general in the U.S. Army.
On October 20, 1946 W.E.B. Du Bois, at 78, delivered the address at the closing session of the Southern Youth Legislature in Columbia, South...
On October 19, 1944 The US Navy announced that Black women would be permitted to join Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES). The...
On October 18, 1968Bob Beamon beat the World long jump record at 29 ft, 2.5 in at the Mexico City Olympics.
On October 17, 2019 Congressman Elijah Cummings died. ‘A giant of integrity and knowledge has fallen’: Washington reacts to the death of Rep. Elijah...
On October 16, 1995 An estimated 850,000 African American men from across the United States gathered at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., one...
On October 15, 1969 A protest began when Willie Black, a 32-year-old math graduate student and head of Wyoming’s Black Student Alliance, learning of...
On October 14, 1964 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, making him the youngest person ever to receive the...
On October 13, 1980 Rayford W. Logan received the Spingarn Medal, “”in tribute to his lifetime of service as an educator and historian.
On October 12, 1945 Jesse James Payne was lynched in Madison County. Florida.
