Black - African American History Facts

Slaves in Gloucester County, VA, staged one of the first documented slave rebellions on this date in 1663.

Lewis Howard Latimer, inventor, electrical engineer, and draftsman, patented the Incandescent Electric Lamp on this date in 1881. Latimer used tiny carbon wires (carbon filament) to light the bulb. Patent # 247,097.

Alain LeRoy Locke, Professor of Philosophy, author, and first black Rhodes Scholar (1908), was born in Philadelphia, PA, on this date in 1886.

The exiled Black Panther Party leader, Eldridge Cleaver, led the group's first international section in Algiers, Algeria, on this date in 1970.