Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. is elected Chairman of House Education & Labor Committee.

Martin Luther King, Jr. calls for non-violent protests if Alabama blacks are not allowed to register and vote.

John Hope Franklin, historian, educator, and author of From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans, is born in Rentiesville, Oklahoma.

President Theodore Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola, MI, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in economics, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Alice Sanger becomes first female White House staffer.

Free black community of Philadelphia PA petitions Congress to abolish slavery.

William Tucker is the first black child to be born in America.

Lou Stovall, artist and master printmaker, is born in Athens, Georgia.