TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY
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1965 - First Black student, Vivian Malone, graduated from
First Black student, Vivian Malone, graduated from the University of Alabama.
1956 - Bus boycott began in Tallahassee, Florida
Bus boycott began in Tallahassee, Florida.
1943 - Gale Sayers, youngest player ever to be elected to the Football Hall of Fame, bo
Gale Sayers, youngest player ever to be elected to the Football Hall of Fame, born
1903 - Countee Cullen, born
Born in 1903 in New York City, Countee Cullen was raised in a Methodist parsonage. He attended De Witt Clinton High School in New York and began writing poetry at the age of fourteen. In 1922, Cullen entered New York University. His poems were published in The Crisis, under the leadership of W. E. B. Du Bois, a…
1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise and opened Northern territory to slavery.
1822 - House slave betrayed Denmark Vesey conspiracy
House slave betrayed Denmark Vesey conspiracy. Vesey conspiracy, one of the most elaborate slave plots on record, involved thousands of Blacks in Charleston, S.C., and vicinity. Thirty-seven Blacks were hanged.
