*Z. Alexander Looby was born on his date in 1899. He was an African American lawyer and businessman.
learn moreEunice Hunton Carter was born on this date in 1899. She was an African American lawyer and the first Black woman to be a district attorney in the state of New York.
learn more*Oliver Law was born on this date in 1900. He was an African American soldier and military leader. He was the first Black man to lead an integrated military force in the history of the United States.
learn moreThis date celebrates the birth of Albert John Luthuli in 1899. He was a Bblack South African leader and Nobel recipient.
learn more*On this date in 1900, James Nabrit Jr. was born. He was a Black civil rights attorney and university administrator. James Madison Nabrit Jr. was born in Georgia, the son of James Nabrit, a Baptist minister and baker, and Gertrude Augusta West. His father became President of the American Baptist Institute in Nashville and Secretary of the […]
learn more*Needham Roberts was born on this date in 1901. He was a decorated African American World War I US Army Soldier.
From Trenton, NJ., Needham Roberts was the son of a pastor. In 1917, he left his job as a drugstore clerk to enlist in the Army and serve his county. He was 15 or 16 years old at the time. He lied to the recruiter and told him he was 19 so he could join. He was assigned to the New York Fifteenth Infantry, which later became the 369th Infantry (“Harlem’s Hellfighters”). He was sent to France with his regiment where they were put under the control of the French Army.
learn more*Hubert Delany was born on this date in 1901. He was a Black lawyer, politician, and judge. From North Carolina, Hubert Thomas Delany was the eighth of ten children born to the Rev. Henry Beard Delany and Nannette James Logan Delany, an educator. His father was born into slavery in St. Mary’s, Georgia. Delany was born and […]
learn more*Learie Constantine was born on this date in 1901. He was a Black cricket player, broadcast journalist, administrator, lawyer, and politician.
learn more*The establishment of Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School is celebrated on this date in 1901. The fort was a military base and training facility on the south side of Des Moines, Iowa. There have been three forts called Fort Des Moines. Fort Des Moines No. 1 (1834–1837), a U.S. Army post that […]
learn moreLouis L. Redding, prominent African American lawyer and civil rights pioneer, was born on this date in 1901.
learn more*On this date in 1902, Strom Thurmond Sr. was born. He was a white-American lawyer, teacher, judge, and politician. James Strom Thurmond was born in Edgefield, South Carolina, the son of Eleanor Gertrude and John William Thurmond, a lawyer. His ancestry included English and German. When Thurmond was five, his family moved into a larger home with about six acres of land, […]
learn more*Loren Miller was born on this date in 1903. He was an African American journalist, civil rights activist, attorney and judge.
He was born in Pender, Nebraska to former slave, John Miller, and Nora Herbaugh, a White Midwesterner of Dutch ancestry. Miller attended Kansas University and received his law degree from Washburn Law School in Topeka, Kansas in 1928.
learn more*On this date in 1903, Mercer Cook was born. He was an African American educator and ambassador.
learn more*Ralph J. Bunche was born on this date in1904; he was an African American scholar and diplomat, known for his work in the United Nations and the first Black to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
learn more*Arthur D. Shores was born on this date in 1904. He was a Black attorney and civil rights activist. Arthur Davis Shores was born in Wenonah, in Jefferson County, Alabama. His parents were Richard and Pauline Shores, and he was the oldest of nine children. Shores had a middle-class upbringing and were fortunate to attend a segregated high school run by […]
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