*Walter Tull was born on April 28, 1888. He was a Black British professional soccer player, dentist, and British Army officer. Walter Daniel John Tull was born in Folkestone, Kent, the son of Afro Caribbean carpenter Daniel Tull and Kent-born Alice Elizabeth Palmer. His paternal grandfather was a slave in Barbados, and his maternal English […]
learn more*Arthur Wharton was born on this date in 1865. He was a Black British football player. Wharton was born in Jamestown, Gold Coast (now part of Accra, Ghana). His father, Henry Wharton, was a Grenadian missionary of Scottish and West African descent, while his mother, Annie Florence Egyriba, was a member of the Fante Ghanaian […]
learn more*E. Ginger Sullivan was born on this date in 1933. She is a Black lawyer and civic health administrator. E. Ginger Williamson was born to Catherine Caesar and James Williamson in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She attended Cranville Elementary School and Pittsfield High School. In 1955, Sullivan received her B.A. degree from Northeastern University. She received her […]
learn more*The Challenger Air Pilots Association is celebrated on this date in 1924. Formed by Cornelius Coffey, John Charles Robinson, Willa Brown, and others, it expanded flying opportunities for Blacks in Chicago. Excluded from local airfields, they set up their own at Robbins, Illinois. To become a Pilot
learn more*Dale L. White’s birth is celebrated on this date in 1899. He was a Black pilot and aviation activist. Born in Minden, Louisiana, White moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1930. In 1932, he attended the Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical University. In August 1933, White began his flight training and received his license in June 1936. Along with […]
learn more*Kemi Badenoch was born on this date in 1980. She is a Black British politician. Born Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke in Wimbledon, London, her mother traveled from Nigeria to the U.K. to give birth before the British Nationality Act 1981 abolished automatic birthright citizenship for those born in the United Kingdom. She is one of […]
learn more*The first meeting of the New York Manumission Society was held on this date in 1785. Their full name was ‘The New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May be Liberated.’ John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, Noah Webster, and many slaveholders were among its founders. […]
learn more*James Barnor was born on this date in 1929. He is a Black African photographer. Frederick Seton James Barnor was born in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. At 17, Barnor was teaching basket weaving at a missionary school, and the headmaster gave him a camera “to play around with––it was a Kodak Brownie 127, made of plastic”. […]
learn more*The Black People’s Convention (BPC) was formed on this date in 1972. This group was a national coordinating body for the Black Consciousness movement in South Africa. With the influence of the growing South African Students’ Organization (SASO), Black Consciousness leaders called for forming a new Black Consciousness political organization to engage and mobilize a broader civil society outside […]
learn more*Winnie Kgware was born on this date in 1917. She was a Black African teacher and anti-Apartheid activist. Winnie Motlalepula was born in Thaba Nchu in the Orange Free State of South Africa. Growing up, she encouraged youth to be active in political structures. Following her call, the youth formed a South African Student Movement branch and […]
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