Born on this day. These are the birthdays we celebrate on September 30 — the people whose lives added to the story of Black history. Cissy Houston Birth name: Emily Drinkard Born September 30, 1933 — died October 7, 2024 Gospel and soul matriarch. Founder of the Sweet Inspirations — heard behind Aretha Franklin and […]
Born on this day. These are the birthdays we celebrate on September 29 — the people whose lives added to the story of Black history. Eddie Tolan Full name: Thomas Edward Tolan Born September 29, 1908 — died January 31, 1967 Sprinter, the "Midnight Express." At the 1932 Olympics Tolan became the first Black athlete […]
Born on this day. These are the birthdays we celebrate on September 28 — the people whose lives added to the story of Black history. David Walker Born September 28, 1796 — died August 6, 1830 Abolitionist author. Walker’s Appeal (1829), smuggled south sewn into sailors’ clothing, was the most radical antislavery document of its […]
Born on this day. These are the birthdays we celebrate on September 27 — the people whose lives added to the story of Black history. Hiram Revels Full name: Hiram Rhodes Revels Born September 27, 1827 — died January 16, 1901 First Black member of the United States Congress. Mississippi sent Revels to the U.S. […]
Born on this day. These are the birthdays we celebrate on September 26 — the people whose lives added to the story of Black history. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Full name: Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela Born September 26, 1936 — died April 2, 2018 South African anti-apartheid leader. Through banning, banishment, and torture, the "Mother of the […]
Born on this day. These are the birthdays we celebrate on September 25 — the people whose lives added to the story of Black history. Eric Williams Full name: Eric Eustace Williams Born September 25, 1911 — died March 29, 1981 First prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago and historian. The Oxford-trained author of Capitalism […]
Born on this day. These are the birthdays we celebrate on September 24 — the people whose lives added to the story of Black history. Frances E.W. Harper Full name: Frances Ellen Watkins Born September 24, 1825 — died February 22, 1911 Poet, novelist, abolitionist, and suffragist. Born free in Baltimore, Harper became one of […]
Born on this day. These are the birthdays we celebrate on September 23 — the people whose lives added to the story of Black history. Mary Church Terrell Full name: Mary Eliza Church Born September 23, 1863 — died July 24, 1954 Educator, suffragist, and NACW founding president. Born the year of the Emancipation Proclamation, […]
Born on this day. These are the birthdays we celebrate on September 22 — the people whose lives added to the story of Black history. Virginia Capers Full name: Eliza Virginia Capers Born September 22, 1925 — died May 6, 2004 Tony-winning actress. Capers won the 1974 Tony for Best Actress in a Musical as […]
Born on this day. These are the birthdays we celebrate on September 21 — the people whose lives added to the story of Black history. Learie Constantine Full name: Learie Nicholas Constantine Born September 21, 1901 — died July 1, 1971 Trinidadian cricket great and Britain’s first Black peer. The dazzling all-rounder won a landmark […]