Evander Holyfield knocks out James “Buster” Douglas in the third round to become the undisputed world heavyweight champion.
On this date in 1988, two units of the Ku Klux Klan and eleven individuals are ordered to pay $ 1 million to African Americans who were attacked during a brotherhood rally in Forsythe County, GA
On this date in 1976, Gov. George Wallace granted a full pardon to Clarence (“Willie”) Norris, the last known survivor of the nine Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 of the alleged rape of two white women on a freight train.
On this date in 1958, ten thousand students, led by Jackie Robinson, Harry Belfonte and A. Phillip Randolph, participated in the Youth March for Integrated Schools in Washington.
On this date in 1940, Committee on the Participation of Negroes in the National Defense Program met with President Roosevelt.
On this date in 1940, Benjamin O Davis becomes the first Black general in US Army.
ON this date in 1925, Emmett W. Chappelle was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He received a Bachelor of Science in 1950 from the University of California, In 1954 Chappelle received a Master of Science from the University of Washington.
On this date in 1915, Attorney James L. Curtis named minister of Liberia.
On this date in 1892, Lincoln F. Brown patents Bridle bit. Patent No. 484,994
