First issue of Emerge magazine goes on sale.
On this date in 1989, Gordon Parks’ film The Learning Tree is registered in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. It joins other films such as Casablanca, Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.
On this date in 1981, more than 300,000 demonstrators from labor and civil rights organizations protested the social policies of the Reagan administration in Solidarity Day march in Washington, D.C.
On this date in 1956, theFirst international conference of Black writes and artists met at the Sorbonne in Paris.
On this date in 1941, Singer Otis Redding born in Dawson, GA
On this date in 1931, Brook Benton, holder of 16 gold records including “A Rainy Night in Georgia”, was born
On this date in 1881, Booker T. Washington opens Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
On this date in 1868, White Democrats attacked demonstrators, who were marching from Albany to Camilla, Ga., and killed nine Blacks. Several whites were wounded.
On this date in 1865, Atlanta University was founded.
