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On September 10, 1929 The Cleveland Call & Post was established when it merged: Cleveland Call, founded in 1916 by Cleveland inventor Garrett A....
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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 10, 1929 The Cleveland Call & Post was established when it merged: Cleveland Call, founded in 1916 by Cleveland inventor Garrett A....
On September 9, 2004 The world premiere of the musical The Color Purple was produced by the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta with a special...
On September 7, 1987 The first short film for one of five consecutive record-breaking No. 1 hits from Bad, Michael Jackson and director Martin...
On September 3, 1970 Representatives from 27 African nations, the Caribbean nations, four South American countries, Australia, and the U.S. met in Atlanta for...
On September 2, 1975 Joseph W. Hatchett was sworn in as the first Black Supreme Court justice in the South in the twentieth century.
On September 1, 1975 Gen. Daniel (“”Chappie””) James Jr. was promoted to a Four-Star General and named Commander-in-Chief of the North American Air Defense...
On August 31, 1970, Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, was convicted in New Haven, Conn., court of conspiracy to murder Alex Rackley, an...
On August 30, 1983, Guion “Guy” Bluford was the first African American in space. Over a million people and more than 250 famous Black...
On August 29, 1979, the first completely Black-owned radio network in the world, “Mutual Black Network,” was purchased by Sheridan Broadcasting Corp.
On August 28, 1955, Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenager who was abducted and lynched...
