Pioneering actress Diahann Carol was born on this day in 1935.
Innovative Jazz Musician John Coltrane passed away on this day in 1967.
Absalom Jones led the creation of the first Black Episcopal Church in the United States, the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas. The church organized the Free African Society, one of the earliest Black organizations that embraced their African heritage.
Billie Holiday, legendary jazz singer, songwriter, and actress, (born Eleanora Fagan), died on this day in 1959.
On this day in 1862, Congress gave legal backing for Blacks to enlist in the Union Army. The fact was that they had been fighting on the side of the union from the beginning of the war.
Charles F. Bolden, Jr. is appointed as the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) by President Barack Obama on this day in 2009. As an astronaut, he went into space four times on the space shuttle.
On this day in 1942, America’s greatest boxer of all time, Mohammad Ali, was born as Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. in Louisville, Kentucky.
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