Do you know that August Black History also includes:
16th – Rebellious slaves known as Maroons engaged British military forces in Charlestown, SC (1768); Robert L. Johnson succumbed (1938); George Olden became the first Black artist to design a U.S. postage stamp (1963);
17th – Marcus Garvey was born (1887); Gabon proclaimed independent (1960); Roberto Clemente became the second baseball player featured on a US Postage stamp (1984); Pearl Bailey succumbed (1990);
18th – The First Seminole War consisting of forces of Native and Black Americans ended in defeat (1818); Amelia Boynton Robinso was born (1911); Leon Bridges was born (1932); Rafer Johnson was born (1936); James Meredith became the first Black awarded a bachelor’s degree by the University of Mississippi -aka- Ole Miss (1963); Jimi Hendrix performed at Woodstock (1969); Lil’ Romeo was born (1989);
19th – 24th – A large-scale race riot occurred in New Haven, CT (1967);
20th - At least 20 African indentured servants, not slaves arrived in Jamestown, VA aboard a Dutch ship (1619); Massachusetts became the first colony to legalize slavery by statute (1641); Wynston Brown became president of the National Negro Bowling Association (1939); Don King was born (1931); Isaac Hayes was born (1942); Senegal proclaimed independent (1960);
21st - Harriet M. West became the first Black woman to serve as a major in the Women’s Army Corps (1943);
21st – 23rd - Nat Turner Rebellion occurred in Southampton County, VA (1831); Wilt Chamberlain was born (1936); George Jackson succumbed (1971); Robert Tool, the first man implanted with a self-contained artificial heart, spoke on National TV (2001);
22nd – The Haitian Revolution began (1791); Fisk University founded (1876); John Lee Hooker was born (1917);
22nd - 23rd – Frederick Douglass chaired the Fugitive Slave Law Convention (1850);
23rd – International Day for the Remembered of the Slave Trade and its Abolition; Jean Baptiste Lislet-Geoffroy was born (1755); Jean-Baptiste Lislet-Geoffrey becomes the first Black correspondent of the French Academy of Sciences (1786); John Brown Russwurm becomes the first Black in America to graduate college (1826); James Stone enlisted in the Union Army and became the first Black to fight for the Union during the Civil War (1861); Kobe Bryant was born (1978);
24th – Edith Samson became the first Black American appointed as a UN Representative (1950);
25th – Althea Gibson was born (1927); Arthur Ashe Stadium opened as the largest tennis stadium at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center (1997);
26th – Hale Woodruff, founder of Atlanta University Shows for African American Artists, was born (1900); Valerie Simpson was born (1946); Patrick Gaspard became the US Ambassador to South Africa (2013);
27th – W.E.B. DuBois succumbed (1963);
28th – Slavery abolished in the United Kingdom (1833); Emmit Till was abducted, tortured and lynched (1955); ); ‘Please Mr. Postman’ by The Marvelettes charted No.1 single on Billboard (1961); Jackie Robinson met with Branch Rickey, president and general manager of the Dodgers and learned of the plan to integrate Major League Baseball (1945); the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom occurred and Dr. Martain Luther King, Jr., delivered his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech (1963); Hurricane Katrina struck land (2005); Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President (2008); Andrw Gillum won the Democratic Primary for Governor of Florida (2008); Colin Kaepernick silent protested by kneeling during the National Anthem (2016); Chadwick Boseman succumbed (2020);
29th – Dinah Washington was born (1924); Michael Jackson was born (1958); Malvin Goode became the first Black American television news commentator (1962); or
30th – Gabriels’ Rebellion occurred in Richmond, VA (1797); Roy Wilkins was born (1901); Mirror of Freedom, the first Black magazine began publication (1938); Fred Hampton was born (1948); Guion (Guy) S. Bluford, Jr. became the first Black American astronaut to make a space flight on board the space shuttle Challenger (1983)?
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