JAM MASTER JAY
October 25
1940—The Black newspaper owners group—the NNPA (National Newspaper Publishers Association) is founded.
1940—Benjamin O. Davis Sr. becomes the first Black general...
Women listen during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.
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by Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College
Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first...
The HistoryMakers, headquartered in Chicago, is one of the nation's most extensive African American video oral history archives. Established in 1999, they seek to...