March 29, 2024              Celebrate Black History Everyday!    

February 7

Benjamin Banneker, inventor, surveyor, mathematician, and astronomer, began to help lay out Washington, DC, under the supervision of Major Andrew Endicott, IV on this date in 1791.

James Hubert "Eubie" Blake, pianist and composer, was born in Baltimore, MD, on this date in 1883.

Autherine Juanita Lucy, the first black student at the University of Alabama, was suspended after a riot at the school on this date in 1956.

Grenada gained its independence from Great Britain on this date in 1974.

Walter Bergman, an 84-year-old Freedom Rider who was beaten by Ku Klux Klansmen at an Alabama bus station in 1961, was awarded a judgment of $50,000 by a U.S. District Court on this date in 1984.

Cheikh Anta Diop, Egyptologist and author of Civilization or Barbarism and the General History of Africa, died on this date in 1986. Diop proved Egyptians were black and their culture predated and directly influenced Greek and Roman culture.

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