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2021 - 1Sunday1936 - Benjamin E. Mays
- 2Monday1980 - Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns wins WBA Welterweight Title
- 3Tuesday1928 - First Black Daily Newspaper In Modern Times
- 4Wednesday1897 - Henry Rucker appointed collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia
- 5Thursday1984 - Evelyn Ashford wins a gold medal in the 100-meter
- 6Friday1965 - President Signs Voting Rights Bill
- 7Saturday1970 - Courthouse shoot-out
- 8Sunday1885 - William C. Carter patents an umbrella stand
- 9Monday1987 - Beatrice Foods is acquired by Reginald Lewis.
- 10Tuesday1981 - PUSH Boycott
- 11Wednesday1965 - Thurgood Marshall
- 12Thursday1923 - Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell
- 13Friday1953 - President Eisenhower established Government Contract Compliance Committee
- 14Saturday1966 - Academy Award winning actress Halle Berry was born on this date.
- 15Sunday1938 - Congresswoman Maxine Waters born on this date.
- 16Monday1958 - Angela Bassett, actress born on this date
- 17Tuesday1990 - Jazz artist Pearl Bailey dies
- 18Wednesday1935 - Rafer Johnson, is born
- 19Thursday1989 - Desmond Tutu Defies Apartheid Law
- 20Friday1942 - Musician Isaac Hayes born
- 21Saturday1936 - Wilt Chamberlain born on this date.
- 22Sunday1989 - Huey P. Newton killed
- 23Monday1900 - National Negro Business League organized in Boston
- 24Tuesday1854 - John V. DeGrasse admitted to Massachusetts Medical Society.
- 25Wednesday1886 - American National Baptist Convention
- 26Thursday1960 - Branford Marsalis, jazz saxophonist and icon, born on this date.
- 27Friday1963 - W.E.B. Du Bois died
- 28Saturday1963 - March on Washington
- 29Sunday1958 - Musician, Michael Jackson was born,1958 on this date
- 30Monday1983 - Lt. Col. Guion S. Bluford Jr. The first Black US astronaut enters space.
- 31Tuesday2002 - Jazz great, vibraphonist, Lionel Hampton dies at age 94.
