Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson, publisher of Ebony magazine.
On this date in 1796, an African Free School opened in New York. It was the the first school for Blacks in America opened.
The African Free School began in New York City by the Manumission Society. The African Free School commenced as a one-room school and the first permanent build was erected in later that year. After a fire destroyed the building, African School No. 2 opened in 1815, with room for 500 pupils.
On this date in 1995, South Africans voted in their first all-race local government elections, completing the destruction of the apartheid system.
On this date in 1964, Dr. Charles S. Johnson became the first Black president of Fisk University.
On this date in 1942, John H. Johnson published first issue of Negro Digest.
On this date in 1927, Dancer and singer Florence Mills (32) dies in New York City.
ON this dated in 1910, Activist, WEB Dubois, begins publication of the NAACP monthly magazine, Crisis.
ON this date in 1898, C. W. Allen Self-leveling table. Patent No.613,436
On this date in 1989, Renowned attorney Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander dies in Philadelphia.
