*George Foreman was born on this date in 1949. He was a Black professional boxer, businessman, minister and author. George Foreman was born in Marshall, Texas. He grew up with six siblings in the Fifth Ward community of Houston, Texas. Although he was raised by J. D. Foreman, whom his mother had married when George was […]
learn more*The birth of Arthur Logan is celebrated on February 21 c. 1905. He was a Black surgeon. Arthur C. Logan was the youngest of nine children born in Tuskegee, Alabama. He came from a family known for valuing education and decorum to transcend racial restrictions. Logan attended a private school in New York City. He […]
learn more*Adele Logan Alexander was born on this date in 1938. She is an author and Black professor of history. Born Adele Logan in New York City, she was an only child of Arthur C. Logan and Wenonah Bond and the only granddaughter of Educator Adela Hunt. Logan attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New […]
learn more*Samuel Greenlee was born on July 13, 1930. He was a Black writer of fiction and poetry. Samuel Eldred Greenlee, Jr., was born in Chicago, Illinois, to singer and dancer Desoree Alexander and railroad man and union activist Samuel Greenlee. He grew up in West Woodlawn, attended Englewood High School, and, in 1948, won a […]
learn more*Sadie Chandler Cole’s birth is celebrated on this date in 1865. She was a Black singer, music educator, and activist. Sadie Chandler was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was the daughter of Abraham Washington Chandler and Sarah Hatfield Chandler. Her parents were involved in the Underground Railroad movement and helped found a Baptist church in […]
learn more*William D. Coleman was born on this date in 1842. He was a Black Americo-Liberian politician. Of mixed race, William David Coleman was born into slavery in Fayette County, Kentucky. He emigrated to Liberia with his family when he was 11 years old. Upon their arrival, the family consisted of William, his widowed mother Ellen, and three […]
learn more*The founding of Kentucky in Africa is celebrated on this date in 1828. This colony in present-day Montserrado County, Liberia, was settled by American freedmen, many formerly enslaved Africans. As a Kentucky state affiliate of the American Colonization Society, members raised money to transport black people from Kentucky to Africa. The Kentucky Society bought a 40-square-mile (100 […]
learn more*On this date, in 1822, the city of Monrovia was founded. Monrovia is the capital city of Liberia, a West African country on the Atlantic coast. Early on, the area was called Ducor. The French cartographer and slave trader Chevalier des Marchais visited Ducor and the Cape in 1723, conducted business there, and later published a map […]
learn more*The birth of Aïda Muluneh is celebrated on this date in 1974. She is a Black African photographer and contemporary visual artist. Muluneh was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She spent her childhood in Cyprus, Greece, the U.K., and Yemen before settling in Canada in 1985. As a teenager, Muluneh attended Western Canada High School in […]
learn more*The 18th United States Colored Infantry Regiment was formed on this date in 1864. They were a Black infantry regiment. The 18th was raised in Missouri and served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Organized in Missouri, unlike other Black regiments from the State, it was mustered directly into the U.S. rather than […]
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