September 2, 1975 Joseph W. Hatchett was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court, making him the first African American Supreme Court justice in the South in the 20th century. Hatchett was born September 17, 1932 in Clearwater, Florida. Because the law schools in Florida were segregated, Hatchett attended Howard University Law School and graduated in […]
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September 1st in African American History – Al Green
September 1, 1947 Al Green, Congressman from Texas, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Green earned his bachelor’s degree from Tuskegee University and his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Texas Southern University in 1974. After college, Green co-founded a private law firm and also served as president of the NAACP Houston chapter.
August 28th in African American History – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
August 28, 1963 More than 250,000 people participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C. by marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. The march was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, James Farmer, president of the Congress of Racial Equality, […]
August 8th in African American History – John Harold Johnson
August 8, 2005 John Harold Johnson, publisher and businessman, died. Johnson was born January 19, 1918 in Arkansas City, Arkansas. He moved to Chicago, Illinois with his family in 1933. After graduating from high school, Johnson took a job as an office boy at Supreme Life Insurance Company and within two years he had moved […]
August 5th in African American History – Oliver White Hill, Sr.
August 5, 2007 Oliver White Hill, Sr., civil rights attorney, died. Hill was born May 1, 1907 in Richmond, Virginia. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard University in 1931 and his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Howard’s School of Law in 1933. Hill won his first civil rights case in 1940 in […]
July 20th in African American History – Everett Frederick Morrow
July 20, 1994 Everett Frederick Morrow, businessman and the first African American to hold an executive position at the White House, died. Morrow was born April 20, 1906 in Hackensack, New Jersey. Morrow graduated from Bowdoin College in 1930 and was employed by the National Urban League and the NAACP as field secretary before entering […]
July 10th in African American History – Mary Jane McLeod Bethune
July 10, 1875 Mary Jane McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights leader, was born in Mayesville, South Carolina. Bethune attended Scotia Seminary (now Barber-Scotia College) from 1888 to 1894 and then Dwight Moody’s Institute for Home and Foreign Missions (now Moody Bible Institute). In 1899, Bethune moved to Palatka, Florida where she ran a mission […]