January 25, 1972, Shirley Chisholm announced her presidential bid. She became the first African American to run for a major party's nomination for President of the United States.   "I am not the candidate of black America, although I am…

January 24, 1993, Thurgood Marshall passed away at the age of 83. He was a lawyer and civil rights activist, who later served as a Supreme Court Justice from October 1967 until October 1991.   His most famous Cases was argued before the…

January. 20, 1838, The free Black neighborhood of Weeksville was founded in Brooklyn in what is now Crown Heights.   Named after a man named James Weeks. In 1838 slavery was abolished in New York State. Later Weeks would buy a plot of l…

January 15, 1929 is Martin Luther King Jr Day, Martin Luther King was an activist and Baptist minister who played a major role in the civil rights movement from the 1955 until his assassination in 1968.   King was the leader and spokesm…

January 17, 1942, Muhammad Ali was born. Born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr, he was professional boxer, entertainer, and activist. He is widely regarded the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time and named Sportsman of the Century by Sports Illustrate…

January 12th 1865, "40 acres and a Mule" was created. With the Civil War coming to a close Union General William Tecumseh Sherman met with 20 black leaders in a Savannah mansion on Macon Street to put together the plans for "40 acres and a mule&rd…

January 6th, 2003, Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley passed away from heart failure. She was an educator turned activist, after her son Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly "inappropriately" interacting with White Woman.  …

On Dec. 26, 1908, In Sydney, Australia, Jack Johnson became the first African American World Heavyweight champion beating Tommy Burns   Jack Johnson in his quest to become the first black heavyweight champion wanted to fight Jim Jeffrie…

December 21st, 1956, Montgomery, Alabama, public buses were officially integrated. This happened following a successful boycott of city buses led by Martin Luther King Jr and the NAACP, it lasted 381 days.   Sparked on December 1, 1955…

December 12, 1938, The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states providing college education to white students must provide in-state education to African Americans. The decision came after the University of Missouri refused admission to Lloyd Gaines on…