*This date marks Independence Day for the African Country Zanzibar in 1961. We chose this date to celebrate the birth of Tippu Tip circa 1832. He was a Swahili Zanzibar slave owner and slave trader to European colonist. It is believed that Tippu Tip was born in Zanzibar, his birth name was Hamad bin Muhammad bin […]
learn more*Isaac Woodard Jr. was born on this date in 1919. He was a decorated African American World War IIveteran and hate crime victim. Woodard was born in Fairfield County, South Carolina, and grew up in Goldsboro, North Carolina. He attended local segregated schools, often underfunded for blacks during the Jim Crow years. On October 14, 1942, the 23-year-old Woodard enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Jackson in Columbia, […]
learn more*Franklin Hall Williams was born on this date in 1917. He was an African American lawyer and civil rights leader. Williams was born in Flushing, Queens, his mother died when he was 2 years old; he was raised by his grandparents. He graduated from Pennsylvania’s Lincoln University in 1941. In 1945 he earned a law degree from Fordham University, after […]
learn morePublic Policy advocate Juliana Ramos shares her views on Brazil’s 5 census color classifications and where the Afro Brazilian intersectionality occurs and does not
learn more*Rosanell Eaton was born on this date 1921. She was an African American teacher and voting rights activist. She was born on a farm outside Louisburg North Carolina, a granddaughter of slaves and the youngest of seven children. After her father died when she was 2, Eaton’s mother became a sharecropper. In the early years of her life, Eaton farmed for […]
learn more*Lyndon Johnson was born on this date in 1908. Often referred to by his initials LBJ, he was a white American politician and former teacher. Lyndon Baines Johnson was born in a farmhouse in Stonewall, Texas, Johnson was the oldest of Samuel Ealy Johnson Jr. and Rebekah Baines Johnson’s five children. The Johnson family, known for farming and ranching, had settled […]
learn more*Freddie Stowers was born on this date in 1896. He was an African American corporal in the United States Army. Stowers was born in Sandy Springs, South Carolina, the grandson of slaves. As a young adult he worked as a farmhand and married a woman named Pearl, with whom he had one daughter, Minnie Lee. Stowers was drafted into the Army in […]
learn more*Olivia Hooker was born on this date in 1915. She was an African American psychologist and professor. Olivia J. Hooker was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. At the age of six during the Tulsa race riots of 1921, Ku Klux Klan members ransacked her home while she hid under a table with her three siblings. Hooker later was a founder of the Tulsa Race […]
learn moreCertified Lobbyist Sarah Catherine Walker shares career advice in public policy with young people
learn more*On this date in 2018, colleagues of Alabama State University (ASU) came to pay their respects to soldiers who died one hundred years ago. They Gathered at Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery, Ala. More than 350,000 African Americans served in segregated units during World War I. They were fighting for rights they didn’t have in America […]
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