January 28, 1960 Zora Neale Hurston, author and playwright, died. Hurston was born January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama but raised in Eatonville, Florida, the first all-black town to be incorporated in the United States. Hurston described the experience of growing up in Eatonville in her 1928 essay “How It Feels to Be Colored Me.” […]
Tag Archives | January 7
Zora Neale Hurston – January 28th in African American History
By Chimsima Zuhri on January 28, 2014 in African American History, Author, January
Tags: Barnard College, Columbia University, January 28, January 7, playwright
Frederick Drew Gregory – January 7th in African American History
By Chimsima Zuhri on January 7, 2014 in African American History, January, Military
Tags: Air Force, George Washington University, January 7, NASA
January 7, 1941 Frederick Drew Gregory, the first African American to pilot a space shuttle, was born in Washington, D. C. Gregory earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Air Force Academy in 1964 and was a decorated helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War.
Search
Subscribe to TiAAH
African American History Categories
Previous Days in African American History
Other African American History Posts
- January 11th in African American History – Mary Jane Blige
- August 15th in African American History – William Lee Conley “Big Bill” Broonzy
- July 14th in African American History – Ronald McKinley Everett
- August 9th in African American History – Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr.
- July 30th in African American History – Louis E. Lomax
M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
« Feb | ||||||
1 | ||||||
2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
30 | 31 |
cloud
Academy Award
Air Force
All-Star
Army
athlete
baseball
Baseball Hall of Fame
basketball
Broadway
civil rights activist
Civil Rights Movement
College Football Hall of Fame
composer
Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame
educator
Emmy Award
football
Grammy Award
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
International Boxing Hall of Fame
jazz
Medal of Honor
NAACP
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
National Endowment for the Arts
National Medal of Arts
Navy
NEA Jazz Master
NFL
Olympics
painter
pianist
poet
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Pro Football Hall of Fame
Pulitzer Prize
R&B
record producer
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
singer
songwriter
Spingarn Medal
Tony Award
World War II
writer