SEPTEMBER 17
1787—The United States Constitution is approved but it includes three clauses allowing for the continuation of slavery even though it was supposed...
JULY 23
1900—The first Pan African conference took place in London, England. Blacks from throughout the world gathered to plot strategies for bringing about...
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JULY 16
1862—Crusading journalist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett is born in Holly Springs, Miss. Wells-Barnett was a true militant activist. Her...
President Abraham Lincoln, with young son Tad and Senator Charles Sumner, salutes a detachment of African-American Union troops in Richmond, Virginia at the end...
MAY 14
1885—Erskine Henderson, an African American jockey, wins the Kentucky Derby on “Joe Cotton”—a horse trained by Alex Perry—an African American trainer. Henderson...
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APRIL 30
711 AD—Tarik the Moor invades Spain with force of 7,000 troops, routs the Visigoths and establishes Moor domination of...
