August 14: The Springfield race riot of 1908, moreso a massacre, was a series of violent actions initiated against African...
Black History
August 13 On this day in 1881, the first school of record for black student nurses is...
Black in the Day….The MS Constitutional Convention of 1890 and the Disenfranchisement of Black Folks
Black in the Day….The MS Constitutional Convention of 1890 and the Disenfranchisement of Black Folks
Reconstruction in Mississippi ended in 1875, and many white Mississippians were determined to remove blacks from...
August 10, 1858? is the birthdate of Anna Julia Cooper. Anna J. Cooper was one of the...
August 8, 1866, famed American explorer Matthew Alexander Henson was born. Henson was a technical genius, skilled...
