1st 1807 - Slavery was abolished in the U.S. Territories.
1862 - Slavery was abolished in the U.S. Possessions.
2nd 1863 - Combahee River Raid, led by Harriet Tubman, frees over 700
slaves.
1924 - Congress naturalizes Native Americans; granting them
independence.
3rd 1968 - Poor Peoples campaign begins
1904 - Doctor, Scientist Charles Richard Drew is born(d.1850).
1906 - Innovative entertainer, Josephine Baker is born(d.1975)
1942 - Curtiss Mayfield is born.
1952 - Singer Denice Williams is born.
6th 1790 - duSable establishes trading post at what becomes Chicago
1831 - The 1st annual "Convention of People of Color" in Philadelphia, PA.
1902 - Bandleader, Jimmy Lunceford is born(d.1947)
1966 - The 1st "Black Power" conference.
7th 1917 - Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Gwendolyn Brooks, is born.
1947 - Poet Nikki Giovanni, is born.
8th 1789 - The Bill of Roghts for the U.S. Constitution is proposed.
1886 - The 1st Civil Rights Act is passed.
9th 1877 - Sculptor, Meta Warwick Fuller, is born.
10th 1794 - Richard Allen founds the 1st African Methodist Episcopal church in
Philadelphia, PA.
1898 - Hattie McDaniel, the 1st African-American Oscar winner, is born.
(d.1952).
11th 1911 - Marcus Garvey establishes the United Negro Improvement
Association.
1920 - Pianist, Hazel Scott, is born.
12th 1964 - Rivoria 8 convicted to life in South Africa (including Mandela)
1986 - Soweto state of emergency declared.
13th 1963 - Medger Evers is assassinated.
1966 - Supreme Court issues Miranda decision.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
14th 1864 - Congress grants Black union troops equal pay with whites.
15th 1923 - Jazz pianist, composer and band leader, Errol Garner, is born.
1943 - Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is established.
1950 - A General Strike is called in South Africa.
