November 2, 1983: On this day, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day officially became an American holiday...
Activism
October 31, 1893: On this date William H. Lewis became the first Black person to be named...
October 30, 1979: On this day the first ever Black person was elected mayor of Birmingham, Alabama....
October 29, 1969: On this day the Supreme Court ruled to underscore their previous mandates in Brown and Brown II and ordered immediate desegregation...
I retreated, the weight of the headlines, the trauma of being a black woman in America too...
