People, Locations, Episodes

Today’s Stories

• The Prayer Pilgrimage For Freedom Demonstration, a story
• Sugar Ray Leonard, Boxer born
• Mary Kenner, Inventor born
• Ozzie Virgil, Baseball Player, and Coach born
• Dewey Redman, Musician, and Bandleader born
• Jackie McLean, Alto Saxophonist born
• The Los Angeles Sentinel Newspaper is Published
• The Free African Society is Founded
• Bolling v. Sharpe is Decided
• Martin Luther King Jr. Gives His “Give Us The Ballot” Speech
• Joel Spingarn, Educator, and Activist born
• Hazel O’Leary, Administrator born
• Taj Mahal, Global Musician born
• ‘Buster’ Brown, Tap Dancer born
• Bill Cosby Makes Critical Remarks at Brown v. B.O.E. Ceremony
• Eloise Greenfield, Author born
• ‘Blind Boone’, Musical Prodigy born
• Brown v. B.O.E. Is Ruled On By The Supreme Court
• Frederick McKinley Jones, Inventor born
• Miami’s ‘Liberty City’ Riot Occurs
• Black Horse Jockey Wins The First Kentucky Derby
• ‘Cool Papa’ Bell, Baseball Player born