*Susan Elizabeth Frazier was born on this date in 1864. She was a Black teacher and civic leader on women’s issues and African Americans’ rights and capacity. Susan Elizabeth Frazier was born in New York City to Helen Eldridge Frazier and Louis M. Frazier. She was the great-granddaughter of Black Revolutionary War Veteran Andrew Frazier. […]
learn more*David Richmond was born on this date in 1941. He was a Black counselor and activist. David Leinail Richmond was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, graduating from James B. Dudley High School in 1959. At DHS, Richmond was a popular student, participating in many sports and clubs; he even set the state record for the […]
learn more*The Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) was founded on September 10, 1894. UDC is an American neo-Confederate hereditary association for female descendants of Confederate Civil War soldiers. Established in Nashville, Tennessee, the group venerated the Ku Klux Klan during the Jim Crow era. In 1896, the organization established the Children of the Confederacy to impart […]
learn more*Carrie Fortune’s birth is celebrated on December 2, 1860. She was a Black clubwoman, seamstress, and community activist. Born in Florida, Caroline Charlotte “Carrie” Smiley Fortune was the daughter of white plantation owner John Smiley and his mistress, an Indigenous Seminole woman. At about 16, Carrie Smiley accepted the offer to relocate to Sag Harbor […]
learn more*Joseph McNeil was born on this date in 1942. He is a Black retired military officer and college activist. Joseph Alfred McNeil was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. He grew up in Wilmington and was president of his parish’s Catholic Youth Council. McNeil attended Williston Senior High School, a Black school, where instructors taught their […]
learn more*Jibreel Khazan was born on this date in 1941. He is a Black teacher, counselor, and activist. Khazan was born Ezell Alexander Blair Jr. in Greensboro, North Carolina. He graduated from Dudley High School, where his father taught. His father was a member of the NAACP and very vocal about racial injustices, and “things naturally […]
learn more*Anna M. Mangin’s birth is celebrated on this date in 1844. She was a Black inventor, educator, and caterer. She was born Anna Matilda Barker in Louisiana. On her 1877 marriage application, she listed her parents as Jacob Barker and P. [Polly?] Shelton. Jacob Barker was a white-American planter, merchant, and politician. Barker, a native […]
learn more*Hallie Almena Lomax was born on July 23, 1915. She was a Black journalist and activist. Hallie Almena Davis was born in Galveston, Texas. Her parents, Clifford and Geneva Davis, moved the family to Chicago and Los Angeles, where she graduated from Jordan High School in the Watts neighborhood. She briefly studied journalism at Los […]
learn more*On February 13, 1941, the first issue of the Los Angeles Tribune was published. Almena Lomax, a civil rights activist, published this newspaper between 1941 and 1960, principally for the African American residents of Los Angeles. The paper was known for its “fearless reporting,” including articles about racism in the Los Angeles Police Department. Erna […]
learn more*Erna P. Harris was born on this date in 1908. She was a Black journalist, businesswoman, and activist. Erna Prather Harris was born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, to Frances A. “Frankie” and James E. Harris. Her father was a postman. As an admirer of Mahatma Gandhi, he influenced his daughter’s later activism. Unlike most men in […]
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