*Jimmy Carter was born on this date in 1924. He was a white-American politician and humanitarian. James Earl Carter Jr. was born and raised in Plains, Georgia. As a child, Carter’s family moved several times, settling on a dirt road near Archery, GA. This community was made up of underprivileged Black families. He had three […]
learn more*Alan Freed was born on December 15, 1921. He was a white-American disc jockey. Albert James “Alan” Freed was born to a Welsh-American mother, Maude Palmer, and a Russian-Jewish immigrant father, Charles S. Freed, in Windber, Pennsylvania. In 1933, Freed’s family moved to Salem, Ohio, where Freed attended Salem High School, graduating in 1940. While […]
learn more*Eudora Johnson Binga was born on this date in 1871. She was a Black Socialite and investor. Born to John and Ellen Johnson. Her father was a successful saloon keeper and property owner in Southside Chicago. Her brother, John “Mushmouth” Johnson, was the infamous gambling and policy (numbers) king of the Southside. She was a […]
learn more*Dorothy Heyward was born on this date in 1890. She was a white-American playwright. She was born Dorothy Kuhns in Wooster, Ohio, and lived in New York, Puerto Rico, and Washington, DC, throughout her childhood. She was interested in literature from an early age and started writing plays. After graduating from high school, she attended […]
learn more*Jessie G. Garnett was born on this date in 1897. She was a Black Canadian dentist and activist. She was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Her mother was a seamstress, and her father died when she was a child. At eleven, she moved to the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston with her mother, two older sisters, […]
learn more*Pik Botha was born on this date in 1932. He was a white South African politician who served as the country’s foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era. Roelof Frederik “Pik” Botha was born at Rustenburg in the Transvaal, to Roelof Frederik Botha and Maria Elizabeth Dreyer. At the age of four, […]
learn more*Charlene Drew Jarvis was born on this date in 1941. She is a Black educator, a scientific researcher, and a politician. From Washington, D.C., Charlene Rosella Drew) is the daughter of Charles Drew and the sister of Sylvia Drew Ivie. Jarvis earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Oberlin College in 1962, a Master of […]
learn more*Delores P. Aldridge was born on this date in 1941. She is an American sociologist. Aldridge was born in Tampa, Florida, to Willie Lee Aldridge and Mary Ellen Bennett Aldridge. She was privately schooled at Allen Temple A.M.E. Church and then attended Meacham Elementary School, Booker T. Washington Junior High School, and Middleton High School. […]
learn more*Lezli Baskerville was born on this date in 1956. She is a Black lawyer, judge, and education advocate. Baskerville was born in Montclair, New Jersey, to Marjorie Baskerville and Charles W. Baskerville. Her mother was a teacher and social worker, and her father was a marketing executive. She has an identical twin, Dr. Renee E. […]
learn more*Adrian Fenty was born on this date in 1970. He is a Black politician and lawyer. Adrian Malik Fenty was born in Washington, D.C., the second of the three children of Jeanette Bianchi Perno Fenty and Phil Fenty. He is the middle child of three boys: Shawn, himself, and Jesse. Fenty’s mother is Italian-American. His […]
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