*David Richmond was born on this date in 1941. He was a Black counselor and activist. David Leinail Richmond was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, graduating from James B. Dudley High School in 1959. At DHS, Richmond was a popular student, participating in many sports and clubs; he even set the state record for the […]
learn more*The Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) was founded on September 10, 1894. UDC is an American neo-Confederate hereditary association for female descendants of Confederate Civil War soldiers. Established in Nashville, Tennessee, the group venerated the Ku Klux Klan during the Jim Crow era. In 1896, the organization established the Children of the Confederacy to impart […]
learn more*Carrie Fortune’s birth is celebrated on December 2, 1860. She was a Black clubwoman, seamstress, and community activist. Born in Florida, Caroline Charlotte “Carrie” Smiley Fortune was the daughter of white plantation owner John Smiley and his mistress, an Indigenous Seminole woman. At about 16, Carrie Smiley accepted the offer to relocate to Sag Harbor […]
learn more*Joseph McNeil was born on this date in 1942. He is a Black retired military officer and college activist. Joseph Alfred McNeil was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. He grew up in Wilmington and was president of his parish’s Catholic Youth Council. McNeil attended Williston Senior High School, a Black school, where instructors taught their […]
learn more*Jibreel Khazan was born on this date in 1941. He is a Black teacher, counselor, and activist. Khazan was born Ezell Alexander Blair Jr. in Greensboro, North Carolina. He graduated from Dudley High School, where his father taught. His father was a member of the NAACP and very vocal about racial injustices, and “things naturally […]
learn more*John Barbour-James’s birth is celebrated on this date in 1867. He was a Black British activist. John Barbour James was born in British Guiana, where he became postmaster in Belfield in the 1890s. While living in British Guiana, he established the self-help Victoria Belfield Agricultural Society, which recognized the value of improving the diet and […]
learn more*Harold Moody was born on October 8, 1882. He was an Afro Caribbean physician and activist. Harold Arundel Moody was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and Moody was the son of pharmacist Charles Ernest Moody and his wife Christina Emmeline Ellis. He completed his secondary education at Wolmer’s Schools. In 1904, he sailed to the United […]
learn more*The League of Coloured Peoples (LCP) was founded on March 13, 1931. LCP was a British civil rights organization in London that aimed to achieve racial equality worldwide, primarily focusing on Black rights in Britain. Harold Moody, a Black British physician, was frustrated with the prejudice he experienced in the UK, from employment to obtaining […]
learn more*Una Marson was born on this date in 1905. She was an Afro Caribbean feminist, activist, and writer who produced poems, plays, and radio programs. Una Maud Victoria Marson was born in Sharon village, near Santa Cruz, Jamaica. She was the youngest of six children of Solomon Isaac Marson and Ada Wilhelmina Mullins. She had […]
learn more*Margaret Collins was born on this date in 1922. She was a Black entomologist (zoologist) and a civil rights advocate. Margaret James was born in Institute, West Virginia. Collins was the fourth child of Rollins James and Luella Bolling James. Institute was an all-Black town and a college town. Collins’s father earned his bachelor’s degree […]
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