*Jean Augustine was born on this date in 1937. She is a Black Canadian educational administrator, advocate for social justice, and politician. Jean Augustine was born in 1937 in Grenada but immigrated to Canada in 1960 under the West Indian Domestic Scheme. She studied at the University of Toronto, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Education. After university, she […]
learn moreJohnnie L. Cochran, Jr., was born on this date in 1937. He was an African American attorney and entrepreneur.
Cochran was born at Charity Hospital in Shreveport, LA to Johnnie L. Cochran, Sr., the son of Alonzo Cochran, and the late Hattie Bass Cochran, who was the daughter of Eugene Bass. He was raised in Los Angeles, attended UCLA, and received his law degree from Loyola Marymount University.
learn moreOn this date, in 1938, Maynard Jackson was born. He was an African American attorney and politician.
Born in Dallas, Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr., was the third of six children from a family considered a member of the “Black aristocracy.” His father, Maynard Jackson, Sr., was a Baptist minister and his mother, Irene (Dobbs) Jackson, was a college language teacher with a doctorate in French. Young Jackson and his family moved to Atlanta when he was seven years old, where his father took over as pastor of the Friendship Baptist Church.
learn more*Katie Hall was born on this date in 1938. She was a Black educator and politician. Katie Beatrice Green was born to Jeff and Bessie Mae (Hooper) Green at Mound Bayou in Bolivar County, Mississippi. She attended the public schools of Mound Bayou and married John Henry Hall on August 15, 1957. They had […]
learn more*Kofi Annan was born on this date in 1938; he was a Black Ghanaian diplomat, foundation, and international administrator. Kofi Atta Annan was born in the Kofandros section of Kumasi on the Gold Coast (now Ghana). His twin sister Efua Atta, who died in 1991, shared the middle name Atta, which in Akan means ‘twin’; his mother was Victoria Annan, and his father was Henry Reginald Annan. […]
learn more*On this date in 1938, The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was formed. The HUAC was created to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of America’s private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties. The House Committee on Un-American Activities was established as a special investigating committee, reorganized from its previous incarnations as […]
learn moreJulia Carson was born on this date in 1938. She was an African American administrator and politician and a member of the Indiana House of Representatives.
Carson was born Julia May Porter in Louisville, KY. The daughter of Velma V. Porter, she grew up in Indianapolis, and worked in various positions to support her family. She graduated from Crispus Attucks High School, and then attended Martin University, and Indiana University-Purdue University, all in Indianapolis.
learn more*This date marks the birth of Maxine Waters in 1938. She is an African American politician and activist.
From the housing projects of St. Louis, Missouri, she was one of thirteen children born to Remus Moore and Velma Lee Carr Moore. In 1961, their family moved to Los Angeles, CA where she found work in a garment factory and as a telephone operator. In 1966, Waters was hired as an assistant teacher with the (then) new Head Start program in Watts. Waters attended college while there and in 1970 earned a sociology degree from California State University in Los Angeles.
learn more*Juanita Millender-McDonald was born on this date in 1938. She was an African American teacher and politician.
From Birmingham, Alabama; in 1981, Millender-McDonald earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the University of Redlands and in 1988 her Master’s Degree in Educational Administration from California State University Los Angeles. She also received her teaching and Administration credentials from the California State University system.
learn moreEllen Johnson Sirleaf was born on this date in 1938. She is an African politician and former president of Liberia.
learn more*John Kufuor was born on this date in 1938. He is a Black African lawyer and politician. From a royal, aristocratic maternal lineage, John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor was born in the Ashanti Region of Ghana and started his primary and elementary school at the Kumasi Government School. From 1951 to 1953, he continued his primary education at Osei Tutu Boarding […]
learn more*Clara Adams-Ender was born on this date in 1939. She is an African American U.S. Army General, Nursing advocate and author.
She was born in Willow Springs, North Carolina the fourth child of ten and grew up in a family of sharecroppers. Her parents were Caretha Bell Sapp Leach and Otha Leach. She attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University earning her B.S. degree in nursing in 1961. After that Adams-Ender joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps.
learn more*Riley Gilchrist was born on this date in 1939. He was a Black police officer. From Minneapolis, he was the son of Doris and Riley Gilchrist Sr. In 1957, he had three younger brothers and two sisters: Wendell, Gary, Jay Helen, and Diane. He graduated from Minneapolis Central H. S. In 1970, he became a […]
learn more*Lloyd McDermott, also known as Mullenjaiwakka, was born on this date in 1939. He was an Aboriginal Australian lawyer and rugby union player. Born in Eidsvold, Queensland, Lloyd Clive McDermott had links to the Mununjali clan and the Wakka Wakka people. Lloyd McDermott’s academic and sporting prowess, the son of a farm laborer, won him a scholarship […]
learn more*Tom Hayden was born on this date in 1939. He was a white-American social and political activist, author, and politician. Thomas Emmet Hayden was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, to parents of Irish ancestry, Genevieve Isabelle (née Garity) and John Francis Hayden. His father was a former Marine who worked for Chrysler as an accountant […]
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