Sep 1 |
Halle Tanner Dillion Johnson becomes first woman of any race to practice medicine in Alabama, 1891. |
Sep 2 |
Joseph Hatchett, becomes first African American Supreme Court justice in FL, 1975. |
Sep 3 |
Dorothy Maynor, concert soprano and founder of the Harlem School of Arts, was born in Norfolk, Virginia, 1910. |
Sep 4 |
Lewis Howard Latimer, draftsman and hall of fame inventor, was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, 1848. |
Sep 5 |
Claudette Colvin, civil rights pioneer, arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat on March 2, 1955, was born in Montgomery, AL, 1939. |
Sep 6 |
Lee Roy Young, Jr. became the first African American Texas Ranger in the police force’s 165-year history, 1988. |
Sep 7 |
Earl Manigault, street basketball player known as “The Goat,” was born in Charleston, South Carolina, 1944. |
Sep 8 |
Ruby Bridges Hall, first African American to desegregate a southern elementary school, was born in Tylertown, MS, 1954. |
Sep 9 |
Sonia Sanchez, poet and playwright, was born in Birmingham, Alabama, 1934. |
Sep 10 |
Hoyt William Fuller, editor, critic and leading figure in the Black Arts Movement, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, 1923. |
Sep 11 |
James Charles Evers, first African American elected mayor of a MS city since Reconstruction, was born in Decatur, MS, 1922. |
Sep 12 |
Mae Carol Jemison becomes first African American woman to travel in space, 1992. |
Sep 13 |
Nell Carter, singer and film, stage, and television actress, was born Nell Ruth Hardy in Birmingham, Alabama, 1948. |
Sep 14 |
Prince Hall, the founder of “Black Freemasonry,” was born (approximate birth date), 1735. |
Sep 15 |
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombed in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963. |
Sep 16 |
Frederick McKinley Jones became the first African American awarded the National Medal of Technology, 1991. |
Sep 17 |
Vanessa Williams becomes first African American woman named Miss America, 1983. |
Sep 18 |
Booker T. Washington delivered his “Atlanta Compromise” speech at the Cotton States and International Expo in Atlanta, GA, 1895. |
Sep 19 |
The first International Congress of Black Writers and Artists was convened at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, 1956. |
Sep 20 |
Charles Howard Wright, physician, author and museum founder, was born in Dothan, Alabama, 1918. |
Sep 21 |
Clifford Leopold Alexander, Jr., lawyer, businessman and the first African American Secretary of the Army, was born in New York City, 1933. |
Sep 22 |
The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) ordered an end to segregation on interstate transportation and within transportation facilities, 1961. |
Sep 23 |
Nancy Green, born a slave, one of the first African Americans hired to promote a corporate trademark “Aunt Jemima”, died, 1923. |
Sep 24 |
Executive Order 11246 was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson requiring equal employment opportunity, 1965. |
Sep 25 |
William Craft, subject of “Running…; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery”, was born in Macon, GA, 1824. |
Sep 26 |
William Levi Dawson, professor, choir director, and composer, was born in Anniston, Alabama, 1899. |
Sep 27 |
Donald Cortez Cornelius, television show host and producer (Soul Train), was born in Chicago, Illinois, 1936. |
Sep 28 |
The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. was formed in Atlanta, Georgia, 1895. |
Sep 29 |
The Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes (The National Urban League) founded in New York City, 1910. |
Sep 30 |
Charles Sylvan “Cholly” Atkins, dancer and Tony Award winning choreographer, was born in Pratt City, Alabama, 1913. |