On this day 172 years ago, schoolteacher Elizabeth Jennings Graham successfully began her campaign to desegregate the New York transit…
Ida B. Wells was born on July 16, 1862, on a plantation in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She was the oldest…
This Day In History: July 15th Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, served two terms in office despite his…
This Day In History: July 14th Due to modern-day comforts, one often associates the freezer and refrigerator as a single…
Sarah Elisabeth Goode was born in 1855 in Toledo, Ohio. Goode was an inventor, entrepreneur and one of the first…
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 Was Passed On July 13, 1787, the Northwest Ordinance, which outlawed slavery in the Northwest…
This Day In History: July 12th Frederick McKinley Jones was an early 20th-century inventor who made revolutionary contributions to the…
This Day In History: July 11th In the wake of failed Reconstruction attempts and Jim Crow tactics, prominent African-American intellectuals…
Mary Jane McLeod was born on July 10, 1875, on a rice and cotton farm near Mayesville, South Carolina, where…
On July 9, 1893, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed a groundbreaking operation at Provident Hospital in Chicago, successfully treating a…
This Day In History: July 9th Jester Hairston was a choir conductor, music composer, actor and Goodwill Ambassador with a…
This Day In History: July 8th Women’s health advocate and nurse Alyce “Faye” Wattleton began her mission during the 1970s…