1968 - Arthur Ashe, the first winner of the U.S.Open

1800 - Zion AME Church dedicated in New York City

1981 - Vernon E. Jordan resigns as president of the National Urban League.

1979 - Robert Guillaume wins an Emmy for best actor in a comedy series for Soap

1962 - Two Churches Burned

1957 - Nashville School Destroyed By Blast

1957 - Integration Attempt Causes An Uproar

1957 - The first civil rights bill to pass Congress since reconstruction was passed

1934 - Poet Sonia Sanchez was born

1915 - Carter G Woodson, finds the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.

1908 - writer, Richard Wright, author of "Native Son" and "Black Boy" was born, 1908

1847 - John R Lynch was born

1817 - Death of Captain Paul Cuffe

1823 - Alexander Lucius Twilight

1816 - Kentucky abolitionist and founder of Berea College, John Gregg Fee was born

1806 - Abolitionist, Sarah Mapps Douglass was born

1739 - Slave rebellion, Stono, South Carolina