August 25, 1927: Althea Gibson was born in South Carolina on August 25, 1927. At an early...
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August 21, 1831: This was the start of Nat Turner’s Slave Revolt that took place in Southampton...
AUGUST 18: On this date in 1963, the first Black person graduated from the University of Mississippi....
Born in Jamaica, Marcus Garvey was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which...
On Aug. 15, 1938, United States House Representative Maxine Waters was born in Kinloch, Missouri. She represents California’s 43rd...
