Assassination of Malcolm X
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 […]
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Death of Frederick Douglass
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
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 […]
First formal protest against slavery filed in Pennsylvania in 1688
On this day in 1688, a community of Quakers living in Germantown, Pennsylvania filed the Germantown Quaker Petition against Slavery. Francis Daniel Pastorius, who had founded Germantown in 1683 as […]
Birthday of Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panthers
In 1942 on this day, Huey Newton was born in Louisiana. The youngest child of a sharecropper and Baptist minister, he moved to California with his family when he was […]
The first African American Naval officers begin training
“The Golden Thirteen,” a name given to the first group of African American U.S. Naval commissioned and warrant officers, began training on this day in 1944. From the formation of […]
Birthday of Susan B. Anthony
In 1820 on this day, Susan B. Anthony was born. Her parents were focused on her education and by age 19 she was a teacher herself. By 1846 she was […]
Blanche Bruce becomes First African-American to Preside over U.S. Senate
Blanche Kelso Bruce was born in 1841 to a house slave name Polly Bruce and a Virginia plantation owner named Pettis Perkinson, who educated him alongside his legitimate half brother. […]
The Negro National League Established in Baseball
In 1920 on February 13 and 14, the Negro National League came into being during talks in Kansas City, Missouri. African-Americans had been playing baseball in organized teams going back […]
Formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
On this day in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formally founded. Its origins go back to 1905, when a group of 32 prominent […]