Month: February 2010 | Arthur Ashe Legacy

Anti-Klan: Second Enforcement Act passes Congress

February 28, 2010/in Uncategorized /by Joe

In the wake of the Civil War, Tennessee veterans of the Confederate Army banded together to form the first Ku Klux Klan in 1865. Very quickly Klan groups spread throught […]

Marian Anderson Born

February 27, 2010/in Uncategorized /by Joe

On this day in 1897 Marian Anderson, who would become a world-renowned contralto singer, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The eldest of three daughters, the family attended the Union Baptist […]

Wrongful Death—Civil Rights Activist Jimmie Lee Jackson Slain Igniting [Montgomery] Marches

February 26, 2010/in Uncategorized /by Joe

In 1965, Jimmie Lee Jackson died on this day after being shot by a state trooper in Alabama. Born in 1938, Jackson had tried to register to vote for four […]

1st Black Senator Hiram Revels Takes Office

February 25, 2010/in Uncategorized /by Joe

On this day in in 1870 Hiram Revels became the first African American to take the oath of office as a Senator in the United States. Born in 1827 in […]

Birthday of Daniel Payne

February 24, 2010/in Uncategorized /by Joe

Born on this day in 1811, Daniel Alexander Payne became an important force in the African Methodist Episcopal Church as well as the President of Wilberforce University in Ohio. He […]

Birthday of W. E. B. Du Bois

February 23, 2010/in Uncategorized /by Joe

On this day in 1868 William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Massachussets to parents Alfred and Mary Du Bois. W. E. B. Du Bois, as he came to […]

Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society Founded

February 22, 2010/in Uncategorized /by Joe

On this day in 1832, the Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society (SFASS) was founded in Massachusetts. The abolitionist movement in the United States certainly precedes this society, however, this was the […]

Assassination of Malcolm X

February 21, 2010/in Uncategorized /by Joe

Malcolm Little was born in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19, 1925. By age 13 his father had died and his mother was in a mental institution, which meant that he […]

Death of Frederick Douglass

February 20, 2010/in Uncategorized /by Joe

On this day in 1895, Frederick Douglass–writer, abolitionist, women’s suffragist, statesman–passed away in his home in Washington, D.C. He was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey circa 1818 in Maryland as […]

First Pan-African Congress Held

February 19, 2010/in Uncategorized /by Joe

On this day in 1919 the first Pan-African Congress was held in Paris, France. By the turn of the 19th century, most of the African continent was under colonial rule […]