1968: Kerner Commission Documents a Divided Society More >>
1942: Detroit Rebellion an Omen of Deadly Riots More >>
1988: Debi Thomas Medals at Winter Olympics More >>
1870: Political Deal Brings End to Reconstruction More >>
1870: Hiram Revels Becomes First Black U.S. Senator More >>
1864: Rebecca Lee Crumpler Becomes a Physician More >>
1868: W.E.B DuBois Born in Massachusetts More >>
1988: First Grammy Awarded in Rap Category More >>
1965: Malcolm X Assassinated in New York City More >>
1895: Anti-Slavery Crusader Frederick Douglass Dies More >>
1942: Tuskegee Airmen Take to the Skies More >>
1688: First Protest Against Slavery in Colonial America More >>
1973: First U.S. Navy Ship Named for an African-American More >>
1904: Birthday of James Baskett, Disney's First Live Actor More >>
1848: Boston Public Schools Bar Sarah Roberts More >>
1867: Morehouse College Established in Georgia More >>
1970: New York Stock Exchange Admits First Black Member More >>
1909: NAACP is Established in New York City More >>
1990: Nelson Mandela Released from Prison More >>
1992: 'Roots' Author Alex Haley Dies at Age 70 More >>
1971: Satchel Paige Named to Baseball Hall of Fame More >>
1968: 3 Students Die in "Orangeburg Massacre" More >>
1862: Freedman's Aid Society Established in Boston More >>
1820: "Mayflower of Liberia" Sets Sail from N.Y.C. More >>
1958: Clifton Wharton Sr. Named Minister to Romania More >>
1913: Rosa Parks is Born in Alabama More >>
1870: 15th Amendment Guarantees the Right to Vote More >>
1897: Black Inventor Patents Ice Cream Scoop More >>
1865: President Lincoln Signs 13th Amendment More >>
Bakari Sellers is just 25, but he's already made it into the history books. In 2006, at the tender age of 22, Sellers was elected to the South Carolina General Assembly. More >>
