March 12, 1864 Charles Young, the third African American graduate of West Point, was born in Mayslick, Kentucky. After graduating from high school, Young taught at a black high school in Ripley, Ohio. In 1884, he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point and graduated in 1889. In 1903, he was appointed superintendent […]
Charles Young – March 12th in African American History
Tags: March 12, NAACP, Spingarn Medal, West Point, Wilberforce University
Oliver Wendell “Ollie” Harrington – February 14th in African American History
Tags: cartoonist, NAACP
February 14, 1912 Oliver Wendell “Ollie” Harrington, cartoonist and political satirist, was born in Valhalla, New York. Harrington started drawing cartoons at a young age and went to work for the Amsterdam News as a cartoonist and political satirist. In 1935, he created “Dark Laughter” a single panel cartoon which appeared in the African American […]
Margaret Bush Wilson – January 30th in African American History
Tags: Lincoln University, NAACP, St. Augustine's College, Talladaga College
January 30, 1919 Margaret Bush Wilson, lawyer and activist, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Wilson earned her Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Talladega College in 1939 and her law degree from the Lincoln University of Missouri School of Law. After passing the bar, she was the second woman of color admitted to […]
Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson – January 23rd in African American History
Tags: athlete, Broadway, College Football Hall of Fame, Columbia Law School, football, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, NAACP, Rutgers University, scholar, Spingarn Medal
January 23, 1976 Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson, concert singer, scholar, stage and film actor, athlete, and multi-lingual orator, died. Robeson was born April 9, 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey. He won a full academic scholarship to Rutgers University, the third African American student accepted at Rutgers. Although he was the only black student on campus […]
John Harold Johnson – January 19th in African American History
Tags: Ebony Magazine, Harvard University, Johnson College Prep Charter School, NAACP, Presidential Medal of Freedom, publisher, Spingarn Medal, University of Southern California, Wayne State University
January 19, 1918 John Harold Johnson, publisher and businessman, was born in Arkansas City, Arkansas. In 1933, Johnson and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois. After graduating from high school, he took a job as an office boy at Supreme Life Insurance Company and within two years had moved up to assistant to the president. […]
Horace Julian Bond – January 14th in African American History
Tags: American University, Drexel University, educator, founder, Harvard University, Morehouse College, NAACP, professor, social activist, Spingarn Medal, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, University of Virginia, writer
January 14, 1940 Horace Julian Bond, social activist, politician, professor, and writer, was born in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1960, Bond was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and served as communications director from 1961 to 1966. In 1965, Bond was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives where he served four terms […]
Rayford Whittingham Logan – January 7th in African American History
Tags: Army, Harvard University, Howard University, NAACP, Spingarn Medal, Williams College, World War II
January 7, 1897 Rayford Whittingham Logan, historian and Pan-African activist, was born in Washington, D. C. Logan earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College in 1917 and enlisted in the United States Army. In 1919, he requested and was granted a discharge because of his dissatisfaction with the treatment of African Americans. For […]
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