This foe of my race stands at the school house door and separates the children, by reason of ‘color,’ and denies to those who have a visible admixture of African blood in them the blessings of a graded school and equal privileges… We call upon all friends of ‘Equal Rights’ to assist in this struggle to secure the blessings of untrammeled liberty for ourselves and posterity. Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River which he calls Rio de Espiritu Santo. var sc_security="ce53b535"; var sc_project=11814306; The Battle of the Coral Sea between the Japanese Navy and the U.S. Navy ends. She was also appointed a special assistant to the secretary of war to oversee the selection of candidates for the Women’s Army Corps, one of many influential positions she held during the 1940s. There are 227 days left in the year. The Lindbergh family was inundated by offers of assistance and false clues. Number 7 will leave you truly stumped then amazed! EMAIL. In traveling we are thrown in “jim crow” cars, denied the privilege of buying a berth in the sleeping coach.
For some fifty years, the Plessy v. Ferguson decision upheld the principle of racial segregation. After nearly a decade of teaching, she opened her own school, the Daytona Educational and Industrial School for Negro Girls in Daytona Beach, Florida (now Bethune-Cookman College). The first transatlantic flight by a navy seaplane takes-off. © 2020 BET Interactive, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Black Entertainment Television LLC. Black History Month, or National African American History Month, is a celebration of Black History.
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Former slaves, her parents were leaders of Mayesville’s African-American community. This Day in Black History highlights historical events and groundbreaking achievements of African-Americans. African American Perspectives: Materials Selected from the Rare Book Collection. Below is an actual historical (silent) video of one of the Selma to Montgomery marches. In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt made Bethune director of the Division of Negro Affairs, National Youth Administration, then the highest government position ever held by an African-American woman. Educator and political leader Mary McLeod Bethune died at the age of eighty on May 18, 1955, in Daytona Beach, Florida. SHARE. With help from a patron, she attended Scotia Seminary in North Carolina and Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. > More Black History on this day In Brown v. the Board of Education, a unanimous Court adopted Justice Harlan’s position that segregation violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. Today in History May 18 526 St. John I ends his reign as Catholic Pope. This Day in Black History highlights historical events and groundbreaking achievements of African-Americans.
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