This Day in History
On September 20, 1987 Alfre Woodard won an Emmy for outstanding guest performance in the dramatic series L.A. Law. This was her second Emmy,...
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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 September 20, 1987 Alfre Woodard won an Emmy for outstanding guest performance in the dramatic series L.A. Law. This was her second Emmy,...
On September 19, 1964 Rev. Joseph Jackson outlined why he felt that obtaining and using the vote were the only necessary actions to bring...
On September 18, 1990 Atlanta, Ga., led by Mayor Maynard H. Jackson, is selected as the site of the XXV Olympiad Summer Games.
On September 17, 1991 Ground was broken for the Harold Washington wing of the DuSable Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by artist and poet...
On September 16, 1989 Debbye Turner was crowned Miss America. She is the third African American to win the crown since the first Miss...
On September 15, 1963 That Sunday morning, a white man was seen placing a box under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church...
On September 14, 1970 One Black person was killed and two whites injured in a shoot-out between activists and police officers in a New...
On September 13, 1962 Mississippi Governor Ross R. Barnett defied the federal government in an impassioned speech on statewide radio-television hookup, saying he would...
On September 12, 1992 Dr. Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman in space when she launched from the Kennedy Space Center and joined...
On September 11, 2001 Godwin Ajala is remembered as a U.S. national hero who fought to save the lives of countless people as they...
