Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporated on this date.

On this date in 1960, Two U.S. courts issued temporary injunctions to prevent eviction of about seven hundred Black sharecroppers in Haywood and Fayetter counties, Tennessee.

On this date in 1960, Poet Langston Hughes presented the Spingarn Medal and cited as “The poet laureate of the Negro race.”

ON this date in 1929, “Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work” campaign began in Chicago with picketing of Chain stores on South Side, fall. The campaign spread to New York, Cleveland, Los Angeles and other cities and continued throughout the Depression.

On this date in 1929, Mordecai W. Johnson received Spingarn Medal for his work as the first Black president of Howard University.

On this date in 1928, Bo Diddley was born Ellas Bates on a small farm near the town of McComb, Mississippi, USA, in rural Pike County, close to the Louisiana border, the only child of Ethel Wilson and Eugene Bates. He had 3 half-brothers and a half-sister.

On this date in 1892, Physician, Dr. Miles V. Lynk, publishes the first Black medical journal.

Born on this day in Winchester, VA, Josiah T. Walls waslater elected to the U.S. Congress for the state of Florida.