Gospel singer, Mahalia Jackson, born, 1911
On this date in 1977, Dr. Clifford R. Wharton Jr. named chancellor of the State University of New York.
ON this date in 1934, at a New York City conference, representatives of the NAACP and the American Fund for Public Service planned a coordinated legal campaign against segregation and discrimination. Charles H. Houston, Vice-dean of the Howard University Law School, was named director of the NAACP legal campaign.
On this date in 1921, Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia.
On this date in 1876, President sent federal troops to South Carolina.
On this date in 1868, White terrorists killed several Blacks in St. Bernard Parish, near New Orleans.
On this dated in 1868, B.F. Randolph, state senator and chairman of the state Republic party, assassinated in daylight at Hodges Depot in Abbevile, South Carolina.
On this dated in 1806, Benjamin Banneker, inventor and scientist, dies at the age of 74. In 1753, he borrowed a pocket watch from a well-to-do neighbor; he took it apart and made a drawing of each component, then reassembled the watch and returned it, fully functioning, to its owner.
On this date in 1749, British Parliament legalizes slavery in the colony known now as the state of Georgia.
