Baltimore Orioles Manager Frank Robinson names Assistant General Manager on this date. Robinson was the third African American to become an Assistant General Manager.
On this day in 1989, Four African Americans win Tony Awards for Black and Blue
On this day in 1973, Arna Bontemps (72), writer and educator, passed away in Nashville, Tennessee.
On this day in 1972, Angela Davis was acquitted by white jury in San Jose, California, of charges stemming from a 1970 courtroom shoot-out.
On this day in 1946, Mississippi Valley State University was founded in Itta Bena, Mississippi.
On this day in 1922, Samuel L. Gravely was born. Samuel Gravely was appointed captain of the Navy Destroyer Escort, U.S.S. Falgout, the first African American to command a United States warship. He later received the title of Rear Admiral, a first for an African American navy-man.
On this day in 1832, the Third National Black convention met in Philadelphia with twenty-nine delegates from eight states. Henry Sipkins of New York was elected president.
