When the founders of Atlanta University first established the institution, they could not have predicted that it would expand and…
In a sweeping move meant to calm tensions between North and South, President Millard Fillmore signed the Fugitive Slave Act…
On September 17, 1849, Harriet Tubman, then known as Araminta “Minty” Ross, made her first attempt to escape slavery from…
Hall of Famer and legendary blues musician B.B. King developed one of the world’s most identifiable guitar styles with the…
Born in Augusta, Ga., to Silas Norman, an insurance salesman, and Janie King-Norman, a schoolteacher, music was always in the…
National Women’s Hall of Fame member Constance Baker Motley, an activist, lawyer and federal judge who helped to advance the…
On this day, September 13, 1913, James Cleveland “Jesse” Owens was born in Oakville, Alabama. The youngest of 10 children,…
Mississippi’s first Black mayor since Reconstruction, James Charles Evers, was a pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement who helped register…
On September 10, 1779, Nathaniel Wells was born on the island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean. Nathaniel Wells was…
On September 9, 1739, before dawn cast its first light over South Carolina, the largest slave uprising in the British…
On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Nell Bridges, born September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi, made history when she became…
Many icons in the music industry, from Beyonce to Will Smith, share September as a birth month. On this day…