October 30, 1979: On this day the first ever Black person was elected mayor of Birmingham, Alabama....
Activism
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...
October 26, 1911: On this day the Queen of Gospel was born. Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911...
October 24, 2005: On this day, Rosa Parks, the woman known as the “mother of the civil...
