*This date marks the anniversary of the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, (NAACP) in 1909.
learn more*Virginia McLaurin was born on this date in 1909. She was a Black seamstress, community volunteer, and supercentenarian. McLaurin was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. McLaurin said she “was birthed by a midwife and the birthday put in a Bible somewhere.” She worked in the fields, sharecropping with her parents as a child, shucking corn, and picking […]
learn more*Wallace F. “Wally” Nelson was born on this date in 1909. He was an African American civil rights and peace activist.
learn more*The Holt Street Baptist Church is celebrated on this date in 1909. This was a Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama. The Holt Street Baptist Church building is located at the corner of Holt Street and Bullock Street and was completed in 1913. The first reverend was I.S. Fountain. From 1939 until 1952, Charles Kenzie Steele […]
learn more*Donella Brown Wilson was born on this date in 1909. She was a Black educator and voting rights advocate. Donella Roberta Brown Wilson on the Peterkin Plantation in Fort Motte, SC, her grandparents and great-grandparents had worked as slaves. She was the only child of the late Henry Brown and Minnie Bryant Brown Logan. She […]
learn moreYusuf Dadoowas born on this date in 1909. He was a South African Coloured East Indian activist. Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo was born in Krugersdorp, in the West Rand, near Johannesburg. His parents, Mohammed and Fatima Dadoo were Gujarati Muslim immigrants from Western India. As a young child, his mother scolded him for climbing a tree in […]
learn more*On this date we mark the birth of Kwame Nkrumah in 1909. He was a Black African Statesman and political activist from Ghana.
learn more*Frances Baard was born on this date in 1909. She was a South African activist, and trade unionist, organizer. Frances Goitsemang Maswabi was born Frances Maswabi in Green Point, Beaconsfield, Kimberley, South Africa. Her father was Herman Maswabi from Ramotswa in Botswana, and her mother, Sarah Voss, was a Tswana person from Kimberley. She attended the […]
learn more*Florence Matomela was born on this date in 1910. She was a Black South African activist, communist, and teacher. From Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Florence Matomela raised five children while working as a teacher in the rural Eastern Cape. She also spent time in New Brighton township. Women’s activism in rural areas was often neglected though […]
learn more*Marion Turner Stubbs Thomas, born on this date in 1910. She was a Black socialite and civic organizer. From Philadelphia, PA., Marion Turner was the daughter of Dr. John Patrick Turner and Mrs. Marion Turner. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1930, attended the Sorbonne, and received a music degree from Zeckwer Hahn […]
learn more*On this date, in 1910, Bayard Rustin was born. He was an African American civil rights activist and principal organizer of the 1963 march on Washington.
learn more*Aggie Bernard was born on this date in 1910. She was an Afro Caribbean laundress and labor activist. From Kingston, Jamaica, in May 1938, Aggie Bernard, only 28 years old and full of life summed up the situation and decided to act. Bustamante, who had decided to lead the workers, was arrested and jailed; soon the strikers would […]
learn moreThis date marks the founding of the National Urban League (NUL) in 1911. The National Urban League is a nonprofit social service and civil rights organization with headquarters in New York City.
learn more*Von Mizell’s birth is celebrated on this date in 1910. He was a Black Physician and activist. Von Delaney Mizell was the son of Isadore S. and Minnie (Moore) Mizell, who lived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta and became the second Black doctor in Broward County, Florida. During this time, […]
learn more*Esau Jenkins was born on this date in 1910. He was a Black businessman, preacher, and community organizer. Jenkins grew up during Jim Crow segregation, when educational opportunities were not readily available. He was the only child of Peter Jenkins and Eva Campbell, from Johns Island, South Carolina. He was forced to end his […]
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