16th 1792 - Denmark abolishes the Slave Trade.
1884 - Issac Burns Murphy won the Kentucky Derby this day, becoming
the 1st jockey to win the Derby three times.
1929 - John Conyers,Jr., the founder of the Congressional Black Caucus,
is born.
1979 - Labor and Civil Rights leader, Asa Phillips Randolph, dies.
17th 1954 - The Unites States Supreme Court rules that the notion of
"Separate but equal" policy of school education was constitutionally
illegal, in 'Brown vs Board of Education'.
18th 1896 - The United States Supreme Court hands down its decision in the
case of Plessy vs Fergeson, upholding Separate but Equal
doctrines and starting full blood jim crow laws.
1918 - Pianist and vocalist 'Big' Joe Turner is born(d.1985)
19th 1925 - Black Nationalist, civil rights leader and Black Muslim leader,
Malcolm X (little), is born.
20th 1962 - John Hope Franklin is appointed the Wm. Pitt Professor of
American History and Institutions of Cambridge University,
England, for a term of one year.
21th 1745 - Jean Baptiste Pointe duSable, the founder of the trading post that
came to be known as Chicago(d.1808).
1833 - African-American students enroll in classes at Oberlin College.
1904 - Pianist, composer, singer and enterainer, Fats Waller(Ain't
Misbehavin) is born(d.1943)
22th 1948 - Claude McKay, Jamaican poet, dies.
1959 - Benjamin O. Davis is promoted to the rank of Major General in the
U.S. Air Force.
1962 - Patrice Lamumba is assassinated in the then Belgium Congo.
1967 - Noted poet, writer and historian, Langston Hughes, dies in
Harlem, N.Y.
23rd 1832 - Jamaican national hero figure, Samuel sharpe is hanged.
1900 - Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney becomes the 1st
African-American to receive the Medal of Honor, 37 years
after the battle of Fort Wagner.
24th 1844 - Solomon B. Brown, scientific technician, aids Samuel Morse in
transmitting the 1st formal message between two cities by wire.
1974 - "Duke" Ellington dies of Cancer in Harlem, N.Y.
25th 1878 - Dancer, singer, and actor, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson is born in
Richmond, VA.
1926 - Jazz Trumpeter, innovator and composer Miles Dewey Davis is
born(d.1991).
26th 1799 - Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet, dies.
1899 - Renowned Harlem Artist, Aaron Douglas, is born.
27th 1885 - Lulu Fleming, born into slavery, graduates as valedictorian from
Shaw University.
1942 - Navy messman, Dorie Miller, is awarded the Navy Cross for
heroism at Pearl Harbor.
28th 1831 - Eliza Ann Gardner, Underground Railroad Conducter, is born.
1949 - Wisconson legislature passes law forbidding discrimination in the
National Guard.
1981 - Jazz pianist Mary Lou Wllliams dies in Durham, N.C.
29th 1965 - Vivian Malone becomes the 1st African-American to graduate
from the University of Alabama.
1973 - Tom Bradley becomes the 1st African-American mayor of Los
Angeles, CA.
30th 1822 - Denmark vessey's slave rebellion is crushed.
1909 - The NAACP is founded.
1962 - Edward Franklin Frazier, historian and educator, dies.
31st 1921 - The Tulsa Oklahoma Riots begin; ending with 250 African-
Americans killed, untold injured, 1000 homes burned and 4000
African-Americans confined to prison camps.