March 24, 1912 Dorothy Irene Height, educator and social activist, was born in Richmond, Virginia. While in high school, Height was awarded a scholarship to Barnard College, but when she enrolled she was denied admittance because at that time Barnard only admitted two African Americans per academic year and they had already admitted two. Height […]
March 24th in African American History – Dorothy Irene Height
Tags: Barnard College, Congressional Gold Medal, educator, NAACP, National Women’s Hall of Fame, New York University, Presidential Citizens Medal, Presidential Medal of Freedom, social activist, Spingarn Medal, YWCA
March 14th in African American History – Richard Berry Harrison
Tags: Broadway, Detroit Training School of Dramatic Arts, educator, Howard University, lecturer, Lincoln University, NAACP, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, Spingarn Medal, teacher, Underground Railroad
March 14, 1935 Richard Berry Harrison, actor, teacher, and lecturer, died. Harrison was born September 28, 1864 in London, Ontario, Canada, the son of formerly enslaved parents who had escaped to Canada via the Underground Railroad. As a young man, Harrison moved to Detroit, Michigan and began dramatic studies at the Detroit Training School of […]
February 25th in African American History – Carl J. Murphy
Tags: educator, journalist, NAACP, Spingarn Medal
February 25, 1967 Carl J. Murphy, journalist, civil rights leader and educator, died. Murphy was born January 17, 1889 in Baltimore, Maryland. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard University in 1911 and his Master of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1913.
February 4th in African American History – Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
Tags: Congressional Gold Medal, NAACP, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Spingarn Medal
February 4, 1913 Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, the “mother of the modern Civil Rights Movement,” was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, she refused to obey a bus driver’s order to give up her seat to a White passenger and was arrested. Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and […]
February 1st in African American History – Channing Heggie Tobias
Tags: civil rights activist, NAACP, Spingarn Medal, United Nations, YMCA
February 1, 1882 Channing Heggie Tobias, civil rights activist, was born in Augusta, Georgia. Tobias earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Paine College in 1902 and his Bachelor of Divinity degree from Drew Theological Seminary in 1905. For the next six years, he taught bible literature at Paine College.
January 31st in African American History – Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson
Tags: All-Star, Army, baseball, Congressional Gold Medal, NAACP, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Spingarn Medal
January 31, 1919 Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson, the first African American Major League Baseball player of the modern era, was born in Cairo, Georgia. Robinson attended the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was a star athlete, from 1939 to 1941 and served in the United States Army as a first lieutenant from […]
January 15th in African American History – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tags: Civil Rights Movement, Grammy Award, Montgomery Bus Boycott, NAACP, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Spingarn Medal
January 15, 1929 Martin Luther King, Jr., clergyman, activist, and leader of the Civil Rights Movement, was born in Atlanta, Georgia. King entered Morehouse College at the age of 15 and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology in 1948. He then earned his Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951 […]
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