*Kofi Annan was born on this date in 1938; he was a Black Ghanaian diplomat, foundation, and international administrator. Kofi Atta Annan was born in the Kofandros section of Kumasi on the Gold Coast (now Ghana). His twin sister Efua Atta, who died in 1991, shared the middle name Atta, which in the Akan means ‘twin’; his mother was Victoria Annan, and his father was Henry Reginald […]
learn more*Cecil Price was born on this date in 1938. He was a white-American police officer and white supremacist. Cecil Ray Price was born in Flora, Mississippi, and graduated from Flora High School in 1956. After graduation, Price became a deputy sheriff in Neshoba County, Mississippi, and joined the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. On June […]
learn more*On this date in 1938, The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was formed. The HUAC was created to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of America’s private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties. The House Committee on Un-American Activities was established as a special investigating committee, reorganized from its previous incarnations as […]
learn moreJulia Carson was born on this date in 1938. She was an African American administrator and politician and a member of the Indiana House of Representatives.
Carson was born Julia May Porter in Louisville, KY. The daughter of Velma V. Porter, she grew up in Indianapolis, and worked in various positions to support her family. She graduated from Crispus Attucks High School, and then attended Martin University, and Indiana University-Purdue University, all in Indianapolis.
learn more*This date marks the birth of Maxine Waters in 1938. She is an African American politician and activist.
From the housing projects of St. Louis, Missouri, she was one of thirteen children born to Remus Moore and Velma Lee Carr Moore. In 1961, their family moved to Los Angeles, CA where she found work in a garment factory and as a telephone operator. In 1966, Waters was hired as an assistant teacher with the (then) new Head Start program in Watts. Waters attended college while there and in 1970 earned a sociology degree from California State University in Los Angeles.
learn more*Juanita Millender-McDonald was born on this date in 1938. She was an African American teacher and politician.
From Birmingham, Alabama; in 1981, Millender-McDonald earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the University of Redlands and in 1988 her Master’s Degree in Educational Administration from California State University Los Angeles. She also received her teaching and Administration credentials from the California State University system.
learn moreEllen Johnson Sirleaf was born on this date in 1938. She is an African politician and former president of Liberia.
learn more*John Kufuor was born on this date in 1938. He is a Black African lawyer and politician. From a royal, aristocratic maternal lineage, John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor was born in the Ashanti Region of Ghana and started his primary and elementary school at the Kumasi Government School. 1951 he continued his primary education at Osei Tutu Boarding School (Osei Tutu […]
learn more*On this date in 1938, Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada, 305 U.S. 337, was decided. This was a United States Supreme Court decision holding that states that provided a school to white students also had to provide in-state education to Blacks. States could satisfy this requirement by allowing blacks and whites to attend the same school or creating a second school for Blacks. The […]
learn more*Clara Adams-Ender was born on this date in 1939. She is an African American U.S. Army General, Nursing advocate and author.
She was born in Willow Springs, North Carolina the fourth child of ten and grew up in a family of sharecroppers. Her parents were Caretha Bell Sapp Leach and Otha Leach. She attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University earning her B.S. degree in nursing in 1961. After that Adams-Ender joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps.
learn more*Riley Gilchrist was born on this date in 1939. He was a Black police officer. From Minneapolis, he was the son of Doris and Riley Gilchrist Sr. In 1957; he had three younger brothers and two sisters; Wendell, Gary, Jay Helen, and Diane. He graduated from Minneapolis Central H. S. In 1970, he became a […]
learn more*Lloyd McDermott was born on this date in 1939. Also known as Mullenjaiwakka, he was an Aboriginal Australian lawyer and rugby union player. Born in Eidsvold, Queensland, Lloyd Clive McDermott had links to the Mununjali clan and the Wakka Wakka people. Lloyd McDermott’s academic and sporting prowess, the son of a farm laborer, won him a scholarship […]
learn more*Tom Hayden was born on this date in 1939. He was a white-American social and political activist, author, and politician. Thomas Emmet Hayden was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, to parents of Irish ancestry, Genevieve Isabelle (née Garity) and John Francis Hayden. His father was a former Marine who worked for Chrysler as an accountant […]
learn more*On this date in 1940, we celebrate the founding of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF). They are a leading United States civil rights organization and law firm based in New York City. Created by Charles Hamilton Houston in the 1930s, the organization stems from the legal department of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1940, Thurgood Marshall established LDF as a […]
learn more*John Lewis was born on this date in 1940. He is an African American Lawyer, congressman and activist.
Lewis is from Troy, Alabama and the son of a family of sharecroppers. He grew up on his family’s farm and attended segregated public schools in Pike County, Alabama. At an early age, Lewis developed an unwavering commitment to the Civil Rights Movement. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Religion and Philosophy from Fisk University; and he is a graduate of the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee.
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