November 2, 1995 Oliver Wendell “Ollie” Harrington, cartoonist, died. Harrington was born February 14, 1912 in Valhalla, New York. He started drawing cartoons at a young age and went to work for the Amsterdam News as a cartoonist and political satirist. In 1935, Harrington created “Dark Laughter” a single panel cartoon which appeared in the […]
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October 27th in African American History – Ernest Everett Just
October 27, 1941 Ernest Everett Just, pioneering biologist and one of the founders of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, died. Just was born August 14, 1883 in Charleston, South Carolina. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in zoology in 1907. After graduating and encountering the reality that it was […]
October 24th in African American History – Frizzell Gerald Gray (Kweisi Mfume)
October 24, 1948 Frizzell Gerald Gray (Kweisi Mfume), former head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was born in Baltimore, Maryland. At the age of 16, Mfume dropped out of high school and worked a number of jobs. At the age of 23, he returned to his studies and in […]
October 11th in African American History – Spottswood William Robinson, III
October 11, 1998 Spottswood William Robinson, III, educator, civil rights attorney, and judge, died. Robinson was born July 26, 1916 in Richmond, Virginia. He earned his undergraduate degree from Virginia Union University in 1936 and in 1939 earned his Bachelor of Laws degree from Howard University, graduating first in his class and achieving the highest […]
September 28th in African American History – Constance Baker Motley
September 28, 2005 Constance Baker Motley, civil rights activist, lawyer and judge, died. Motley was born September 14, 1921 in New Haven, Connecticut. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University in 1943 and her law degree from Columbia Law School in 1946. She began her career as a law clerk at […]
September 11th in African American History – James Charles Evers
September 11, 1922 James Charles Evers, the first African American elected mayor of a Mississippi city since the Reconstruction era, was born in Decatur, Mississippi. Evers served in the United States Army in Europe during World War II and graduated from Alcorn A&M University in 1950. In the early 1950s, Evers became active in the […]
September 10th in African American History – Ronald G. Walters
September 10, 2010 Ronald G. Walters, scholar, author and political consultant, died. Walters was born July 20, 1938 in Wichita, Kansas. In 1958, as president of the Wichita NAACP Youth Council, he organized the Dockum Drug Store sit-in which led to the desegregation of drugstores in Wichita. Walters earned his Bachelor of Arts degree with […]