*This date in 1964 marks the celebration of the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination (CARD), a British organization that lobbied for race relations legislation. The group’s formation was inspired by a visit by Martin Luther King Jr. to London in December 1964 on his way to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The Trinidadian pacifist Marion […]
learn more*The Deacons for Defense and Justice are celebrated on this date in 1964. This was an armed African American self-defense group founded in the mill town of Jonesboro, Louisiana, during the 20th-century American Civil Rights era. It is intended to protect civil rights activists and their families. They are threatened by white vigilantes and discriminatory […]
learn more*On this date in 1965, the Edmund Pettus Bridge attack occurred. The incident began when about 600 Blacks left the Brown Chapel AME Church for a 50-mile march to Montgomery.
learn more*Rodney King was born on this date in 1965. He was an African American laborer and civil rights symbol (police brutality).
learn more*The ‘US’ Organization is affirmed on this date in 1965. It is a Black nationalist group established as a community organization in the United States. After the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965 and the Watts riots the following August, the Black Congress was founded as a community-rebuilding effort in Watts, Los Angeles. Two BC members, Maulana […]
learn more*The A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI) is celebrated on this date in 1965. They are an organization for African American trade unionists. APRI uses legal and legislative means to advocate social, labor, and economic change at the state and federal levels. In response to the 1963 Children’s Crusade and the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, A. Philip […]
learn moreThe March Against Fear began on this date in 1966. It was a major demonstration in the 20th-century American Civil Rights Movement in the South. Activist James Meredith launched the event on June 5, 1966, intending to make a solitary walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, via the Mississippi Delta, starting at Memphis’s Peabody Hotel and […]
learn more*The Way Opportunities Unlimited was incorporated on this date in 1966. This was a non-profit Minneapolis Northside community center. It was established following the racial and economic urban North Minneapolis riots of 1966. Black city leaders came together to create a space in the neighborhood devoted to cultivating racial stability among black youths. Syl Davis […]
learn moreOn this date in 1966, the Black Panther Party (BPP) was founded. It was a Black political organization; originally known as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.
learn more*Majora Carter was born on this date in 1966. She is a Black urban revitalization strategist, environmental justice advocate, and public radio host. Majora Carter was born in South Bronx, New York, where she attended the Head Start Program and primary schools. After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, she entered Wesleyan University in 1984 to study film and obtained a Bachelor of Arts. 1997, […]
learn moreOn this date in 1966, Stokely Carmichael (who later was known as Kwame Ture), then chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), gave his famous Black Power speech.
learn moreAbner Louima was born on this date in 1966. He is a Black Haitian-American electrical engineer, police brutality survivor, and activist. Abner Louima was born and raised in Thomassin, a small community in Haiti. He emigrated to the United States in 1991, married, and had one child. In 1997, he was living in Brooklyn with his family. He had […]
learn more*On this date in 1967, The Black Panther Newspaper was published. This was the official newspaper of the Black Panther Party (BPP). It began as a four-page newsletter in Oakland, California, and was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. The newspaper distributed information about the party’s activities and expressed the ideology of the Black Panther Party through […]
learn moreOn this date in 1967, African American boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be drafted into the U.S. Army and was eventually stripped of his heavyweight boxing title. A Muslim Ali cited religious reasons for his decision to forgo Vietnam military service. Born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., in Louisville, Kentucky, the future three-time world champ converted to Islam […]
learn moreThe founding of The City, Inc., in 1967 is celebrated on this date. It was a community service and alternative school for at-risk youth grades 9 through 12 in Minneapolis, MN.
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