*Debra Lee was born on August 8, 1954. She is a Black lawyer and media administrator. Debra L. Lee was born in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. She attended James B. Dudley High School. In 1976, Lee graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in political science, emphasizing […]
learn more*Raymond Cannon was born on January 28, 1892. He was a Black pharmacist and lawyer. Raymond Winfield Cannon was from Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota. He was the youngest of three sons of Mack Oliver Cannon and Mattie Belle Boone. By 1900, the family lived in Minneapolis, where Cannon was a 1912 Minneapolis Central High School […]
learn more*Janabelle Taylor was born on December 3, 1920. She was a Black administrator and social worker. Born Janabelle Murphy in St. Paul, Minnesota, Murphy was the oldest of three children. She attended local schools, graduating from Central High School in 1939, and then moved on to the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1944 with a […]
learn more*Dudley High School (North Carolina) is celebrated on this date in 1929. This is a four-year public high school located in Greensboro, North Carolina. Dudley High School was founded in 1929 as the first Black high school in Guilford County, in a school system segregated by law. The school was named after James Benson Dudley, […]
learn more*The birth of Lynnae Quick is celebrated on this date in 1984. She is a Black planetary geophysicist and Ocean Worlds Planetary Scientist. Lynnae C. Quick was born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, and graduated from James Benson Dudley High School. In high school, she became interested in astronomy after learning about the death […]
learn more*Congress formed the United States Civil Rights Trail on this date in 2014. This is an American heritage trail in the Southern United States that provides visitors with stories about the American Civil Rights movement stories at various landmarks. The Civil Rights Trail links historically important Black churches, school museums, civil rights leaders’ residences, courthouses, […]
learn more*Florence Curtis was born on September 30, 1873. She was a white-American library educator and teacher. Florence Rising Curtis was born in Ogdensburg, New York. Her father was General Newton Martin Curtis, and her mother was Emeline Clark Curtis. She attended Wells College from 1891 to 1894 and, in 1898, received a diploma from the […]
learn more*Eunice Walker Johnson was born on April 4, 1916. She was a Black businesswoman. Eunice Walker was born in Selma, Alabama, to Nathaniel Walker, a physician, and Ethel Walker (née McAlpine), a high school principal. She was one of four children. She graduated with a degree in sociology from Talladega College in 1938. During college, […]
learn more*On December 26, 1929, the opening of Wonder Gardens is celebrated. Also known as Wonder Bar, it was a jazz and R&B nightclub at 1601 Arctic Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Originally called Wonder Bar, the jazz nightspot opened around 1929 at 1601 Arctic Avenue, on the northwest corner of Kentucky Avenue and Arctic […]
learn more*Club Harlem was a nightclub that opened on this date in 1935, at 32 North Kentucky Avenue in the Northside neighborhood of Atlantic City, New Jersey. Leroy “Pop” Williams founded it, and it became the city’s premier club for Black jazz performers. Like its Harlem counterpart, the Cotton Club, many of Club Harlem’s guests were […]
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