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Zion AME Church was dedicated in New York City on this date in 1800.

The start of Integration for MD public schools, and Washington DC public school began on this date in 1954.

Ghana becomes a free self-governing nation. This country will be the first of the British Commonwealth of Nations to be self-governing on this date in 1957.  

Jocelyn Elders became the first Black and first female Surgeon General of the United States on this date in 1993.

Our Nig by Harriet Wilson, the first novel published in the U.S. by an African American woman, was published on this date in 1859. It was lost for years until reprinted with a critical essay by African American scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in 1983. 

George Washington Murray was elected to Congress from South Carolina on this date in 1895.

J. Ross patented the Bailing Press on this date in 1899. Patent No. 632,539.

Los Angeles, California, founded by forty-four settlers of whom at least twenty-six were descendants of Africans. Among the Black settlers, according to H.H. Bancroft’s authoritative History of California, were “Joseph Moreno, Mulatto, 22 years old, wife a Mulattress, five children; Manuel Cameron, Mulatto, 30 years old, wife Mulattress; Antonio Mesa, Negro, 38 years old, wife Mulattress, six children; Jose Antonio Navarro, Mestizo, 42 years old, wife, Mulattress, three children; Basil Rosas, Indian, 68 years old, wife, Mulattress, six children.” on this date in 1781

Lewis H Latimer, inventor and engineer was born on this date in 1848.

Bowie State College is established in Bowie, MD on this date in 1865.

Black students are banned from a Little Rock high school, by Arkansas governor Oval Faubus who calls out the National Guard on this date 1957.

Birthday of Eldridge Cleaver, former Black Panther Party minister of information 1935.

Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted in New Haven, Conn., court of conspiracy to murder Alex Rackley, and alleged FBI informant on this date in 1970. 

Gabriel Prosser’s slave revolt was betrayed in Virginia on this date in 1800
 

Constance Baker Motley confirmed as U.S. district judge and became the first Black woman on the federal bench on this date in 1966.

A Race riot took place in Benton Harbor, Michigan and the National Guard was called  in on this date in 1966.

National Guard was also called to put down racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on this date in 1969.

Lt. Col. Guion S. Bluford Jr. The first Black US astronaut enters space on this date in 1983.

Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first federal civil rights legislation since 1875. The bill established a civil rights commission and a civil rights division in the Justice Department. It also gave the Justice Department authority to seek injunctions against voting rights infractions.

Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchased Mutual Black Network, making it the first completely Black owned radio network in the world on this date 1979.