*Dick Turpin was born on this date in 1876. He was an African American Navy Diver, inventor and officer.
learn more*On this date in 1876, the American national election resulted in the illegal use of the Poll Tax in the United States. Historically, Poll taxes had been a major source of government funding among the colonies that formed the United States. Poll taxes made up from one-third to one-half of the tax revenue of colonial Massachusetts. Various privileges […]
learn more*The Compromise of 1877 was enacted on this date in 1877. This unwritten arrangement, informally arranged among U.S. Congressmen, settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election. This agreement, less than a week before the Presidential inauguration, resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, ending the Reconstruction […]
learn more*William Hayward was born on this date in 1877 in Nebraska City, NE. He was a white-American lawyer and military Colonel. He graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1894; Hayward had been a judge in Nebraska for two years when he entered politics in 1903. He served in public office for several years in Nebraska. In […]
learn more*Perry W. Howard II was born on this date in 1877. He was a Black attorney and politician. Perry Wilbon Howard II was born in Ebenezer, Mississippi. He was mulatto, the first son of Sallie and Perry Wilbon Howard, who were enslaved. His parents bought their farmland and sent all their seven sons to college. Howard […]
learn moreThis date marks the birth of Benjamin O. Davis Sr. in 1877. He was the first African American general in the modern era of the United States.
learn moreMcCants Stewart was born on this date in 1877. He was an African American lawyer.
learn moreWilliam F. (Billy) Williams was born on this date in 1877. He was an African American executive political assistant.
learn more*The birth of Mary Montgomery Booze is celebrated on this date in 1878. She was a Black teacher and public policy administrator. Born Mary Cordelia Montgomery in Mound Bayou, MS. to parents who had been enslaved when young, she grew up in the Mississippi Delta. Her father, Isaiah T. Montgomery, was a cotton producer politically allied with […]
learn more*George Grant was born on this date in 1878. He was a Black African merchant and politician on the Gold Coast. George Alfred Grant was born into an influential merchant family in Beyin, Western Nzema, Ghana. He was the son of William Minneaux Grant and Madam Adjua (Dwowa) Biatwi of the Aboradze clan. Grant was educated […]
learn more*On this date in 1879, 231st Transportation Battalion was formed. The Armed force and National Guard 231st Transportation Battalion began as a Black independent militia company in Baltimore, Maryland. These city militia companies were patriotic social clubs that competed in military drills. All black military clubs comprised Black officers and enlisted men during that time. […]
learn more*Frederick Madison Roberts was born on this date in 1879. He was an African American mortician, news editor, school principal and politician.
learn more*Nellie Quander was born on this date in 1880. She was a Black teacher and community activist born in Washington, D.C. Nellie May Quander was the daughter of John Pierson Quander and Hannah Bruce Ford Quander. The Quander family can trace their lineage three hundred years in Maryland and Virginia. They are one of the […]
learn more*Homer Phillips was born on this date in 1880. He was a Black lawyer and public policy advocate. Homer Gilliam Phillips was born in Sedalia, Missouri. He was the son of a Methodist minister, but he was orphaned in infancy and raised by an aunt. Phillips’s interest in law led him to Washington, D.C., where […]
learn more*Willis O. Tyler was born on this date in 1880. He was a Black lawyer. From Bloomington, Indiana, he was the son of Isaac and Mary Tyler, Monroe County’s Black community members. The family lived on East 10th Street in what was then known as the “Buck Town” neighborhood. His father died the year after Willis was […]
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