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1868
On this day Dr.William Edward Burghardt DuBois, educator and civil rights advocate, is born in Great Barrington, Mass.
1869
Louisiana governor signed public accommodations law.
1895
William H. Heard, AME minister and educator, named minister to Liberia.
1915
Death of Robert Smalls (75), Reconstruction congressman, in Beaufort, South Carolina.
1925
Louis Stokes, former mayor of Detroit, Michigan, and member of the US House of Representatives, was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Stokes was the first African American elected to the House from Ohio.
1929
Baseball catcher Elston Gene Howard was born in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1965, Howard signed a $70,000 contract with the NY Yankees and became the highest paid player in the history of baseball at the time.
1965
Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president, the highest elective office held by a Black woman in a major American city.
1979
Frank E. Peterson Jr. named the first Black general in the Marine Corps.
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I am a woman, I make mistakes. I make them often. God has given me a talent and that's it. ~ Jill Scott
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