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The Town of Eatonville, Florida is Established The small town of Eatonville, Florida, began with a desire to have an…
On August 13, 1881, Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga. opened the first African American nursing school. African Americans seeking hospital…
With works such as Roots and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, journalist and author Alex Haley was able to capture…
This Day In History: August 11th Journalist and diplomat Carl Thomas Rowan rose to popularity during the 1950s as a…
On August 11, 1965, more than 30,000 people in Los Angeles’ Watts neighborhood began rioting after the arrest of a…
Anna Julia Cooper, educator, educator, the fourth Black American woman to earn a Ph.D. (in history from the Sorbonne in…
This Day In History: August 9th From Baby Boomers to Generation Z, people of all ages have heard and admired…
Baseball trailblazer Hank Aaron ranked on the all-time home run list for more than three decades before Barry Bonds eclipsed…
This Day In History: August 4th Award-winning journalist and Canada’s first person of color to serve as the 27th Governor-General,…
Best-selling author and activist James Arthur Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924, in Harlem, New York. His eloquence and…
This Day In History: August 1st By the start of the 1800s, there were more than 400,000 enslaved Africans dispersed…
Civil Rights Leader, Whitney Young Jr., Was Born Civil rights leader, presidential advisor and former head of the National Urban League,…