Daniel “Chappie” James, first African-American four-star general, dies in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

First Black YMCA organized in Washington, D.C.

The home of Frederick Douglass is made a national shrine.

Political activist Angela Davis is released from jail.

Hiram Rhodes Revels is elected the first African -American U.S. Senator; representing Mississippi.

W.E.B. Du Bois is born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Col. Frederick Gregory becomes the first African American to command a space shuttle mission.

Wilt Chamberlain sets an NBA record with thirty-four attempted free throws.

Grafton Tyler Brown, one of California’s first African-American painters, is born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

By The Editors
Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye of Dakar, Senegal, devoted more than half his life to ensuring that the history of the African slave trade was not distorted or erased.