In a sweeping move meant to calm tensions between North and South, President Millard Fillmore signed the Fugitive Slave Act…
On this day in 1861, educator Mary S. Peake began her teaching career. When she entered education, Peake became one…
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…
This Day In History: September 13th Gifted scholar Alain LeRoy Locke is often considered by many to be the father…
An elderly Black woman witnessed young Jerome Smith, just 10 years old at the time, boldly snatching down a Jim…
On this day in 1973, the United States Postal Service honored artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and his influence with a…
On September 10, 1779, Nathaniel Wells was born on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts. Nathaniel Wells was the son…
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…