Two Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark – killed in Chicago police raid. Civil rights leaders said the two men were murdered in their beds. Hampton founded the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party in November 1968. He immediately established a community service program.
The Great Migration began. Approximately two million Southern Blacks moved to Northern industrial centers in the following decades. Between the turn of the century and 1930, more than 1 million black southerners set out on one of America’s most important mass movements.
ON this date in 1969, Pulitzer Prize for photography awarded to Moneta Sleet Jr. of Ebony magazine. He was the first Black male cited by the Pulitzer committee. In 1969 Moneta J. Sleet Jr. became the first African American male and the first African American photographer to win a Pulitzer Prize.
On this date in 1969, Clarence Mitchell Jr., director of the Washington Bureau of the NAACP, awarded the Spingarn Medal “for the pivotal role he….played in enactment of civil rights legislation.” The Spingarn Medal owes its existence to Joel Elias Spingarn, who was elected Chairman of the Board of the NAACP.
On this date in 1927, Spingarn Medal awarded to Anthony Overton, publisher, insurance executive and cosmetics manufacturer, for his achievements as a businessman. The Spingarn Medal owes its existence to Joel Elias Spingarn, who was elected Chairman of the Board of the NAACP.
On this date in 1927, Duke Ellington opened at the Cotton Club in Harlem. In 1923, Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington first began to make his mark in New York with his band The Washingtonians, which took its name from his home city.
On this date in 1915, Ku Klux Klan received charter from Fulton County, Ga., Superior Court. Modern Klan spread to Alabama and other Southern state and reached height of its influence in the twenties. By 1924 the organization was strong in Oklahoma, Indiana, California, Oregon, Indiana, and Ohio.
On this date in 1915, the NAACP led protest demonstrations against the showing of the movie Birth of a Nation. The racism that African Americans experienced in both the South and the North during the war years could be glimpsed in many arenas of American life, including the movies.
On this date in 1909, The New York newspaper Amsterdam News is founded. The year 1909 was an eventful one for African Americans: W. E. B. Du Bois and associates organized the NAACP; Matthew Henson, a Black man, accompanied explorer Robert Peary on the first successful expedition to the North Pole…
On this date in 1906, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. was founded on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York by seven college men who recognized the need for a strong bond of Brotherhood among African descendants in this country.
On this date in 1895, South Carolina Constitutional Convention adopted new constitution with “understanding clause” designed to eliminate Black voters. In the 1890s, southern states began to systematically and completely disfranchise black males by imposing voter registration restrictions, such as literacy tests, poll taxes, the grandfather clause…
On this date in 1833, the American Anti-Slavery Society organized. The Anti-Slavery Movement began in Europe during the 1770s and rapidly spread to the United States during the American Revolutionary War.
On this date in 1807, Death of Prince Hall, activist and Masonic leader, in Boston. Born in the British West Indies, Prince Hall migrated to Boston during his youth and rose to become one of the Black community’s most influential members. At the outbreak of the American Revolution, Hall enlisted in the Medford militia…
ON this date in 1783, George Washington gives his farewell address to his troops at Fraunces Tavern in NYC owned by ,Samuel ” Black Sam” Fraunces a wealthy West Indian of African and French descent who aided Revolutionary forces with food and money from what is known, Samuel Fraunces left the French West Indies to make his way in New York …
