Activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, born, 1917
On this date in 1971, John A. Wilkinson’s marriage to Lorraine Mary Turner was the first legalized interracial marriage in North Carolina. Wilkinson was black and Turner was white.
On this date in 1895, W.D. Davis patented an improved riding saddle. Davis invented his saddle while serving as a buffalo soldier, African American soldiers serving either in the 9th and 10th Calvary or 24th and 25th Infantry who manned the Western borders.
On this date in 1871, Fisk Jubilee Singers began first national tour.
ON this date in 1868, Black state convention at Macon, Georgia, protested expulsion of Black politicians from Georgia legislature.
ON this date in 1847, National Black convention met in Troy, N.Y., with more than 60 delegates from nine states. Nathan Johnson of Massachusetts was elected president.
