Past, Present and Future
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On this day in 1972, racial violence erupted aboard the USS Kitty Hawk, an American aircraft carrier serving during the Vietnam War. The incident, involving Black and white sailors, left dozens injured and exposed the racial tensions Black servicemen faced while serving in the military. The confrontation became one of the most widely reported examples of racial conflict within the Navy during the Vietnam era.
On this day in 1941, Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville, South Carolina. He would go on to become a prominent civil rights organizer, working alongside Martin Luther King Jr. before founding Operation PUSH and later becoming a major force in Black political organizing and voter registration.
On this day in 1831, The Liberator, founded by William Lloyd Garrison, published resolutions from Philadelphia’s Black community opposing the American Colonization Society. Black Philadelphians rejected the idea that Black Americans should be removed from the United States and sent to Africa, asserting their right to remain and claim their place in the country they called home.
On this day in 1821, William Still was born in Massachusetts. He would become one of the most important figures of the Underground Railroad, helping freedom seekers escape slavery while recording their names, journeys, and stories. His records later became one of the most important firsthand accounts of the Underground Railroad.
On this day in 1871, the Fisk Jubilee Singers left Nashville, Tennessee, on their first national tour, led by treasurer and music professor George L. White. They traveled across the country to raise funds for their financially struggling university, carrying the spirituals of Black America with them.
On this day in 1917, Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi. Born to a family of sharecroppers, she would rise from the fields of Mississippi to become one of the most powerful voices of the Black freedom struggle, fighting for voting rights, political power, and the full citizenship of Black Americans.
Old Black Men (1927)
Georgia Douglas Johnson
They have dreamed as young men dream
Of glory, love and power;
They have hoped as youth will hope
Of life’s sun-minted hour.
They have seen as other saw
Their bubbles burst in air,
And they have learned to live it down
As though they did not care.
On this day in 1892, Ida B. Wells delivered her lecture on lynching in New York City, bringing her campaign against racial terror to a national audience. That same year, she published Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, exposing the lies used to justify lynching across the South.
On this day in 1872, Booker T. Washington arrived in Hampton, Virginia, after traveling hundreds of miles by foot and train with little money but a determination to pursue an education. He would go on to become one of the most influential Black educators of his generation and the founder of Tuskegee Institute.
The Sisters of the Holy Family, a Black American Catholic religious order based in New Orleans, Louisiana founded in 1837
On this day in 1864, The New Orleans Tribune began publication. Founded by Louis Charles Roudanez, it became the first Black daily newspaper in the United States.
Published in both English and French, the Tribune gave Black Louisianians a powerful voice during Reconstruction, advocating for Black citizenship, education, political rights, and racial equality.
On this day in 1895, the National Medical Association was founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
Black physicians created the organization in response to their exclusion from the American Medical Association. It became a national institution dedicated to advancing Black physicians, medical education, and the health of Black Americans.
