Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1863 Mary Church Terrell, a founding member of the NAACP and pioneering African American civil rights and women's suffrage activist, was born in Memphis, Tennessee.
Sources: U.S. National Archives ; Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries, Social Welfare History Project ; Ohio History Connection
Birth
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons An all-white jury in Mississippi acquitted Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam of the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, sparking national outrage that helped galvanize the civil rights movement.
Sources: Equal Justice Initiative ; National Park Service ; PBS American Experience
History
Photo by Robert S. Oakes — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1961 U.S. President John F. Kennedy nominated civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, though segregationist senators delayed his confirmation for nearly a year.
Sources: U.S. National Archives (Rediscovering Black History) ; Federal Judicial Center ; U.S. Government Publishing Office
HistoryBritish forces under Herbert Kitchener captured Dongola in Sudan during the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of the country.
Sources: The Gazette (UK official public record) ; Project Gutenberg
History