Afro History
Today in Afro History ! Jazz Trumpeter, Clifford Brown passes away in 1956.
Today in Afro History ! Mozambique gains independence from Portugal in 1975 ! Lincoln Alexander becomes the first Afro Canadian member of the Canadian Parliament in 1968 !
English: Mozambique (orthographic projection) Português: Moçambique (projeção ortográfica) Español: Mozambique (proyección ortográfica) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Colonel The Honourable Lincoln M. Alexander Memorial Services (Photo credit: 4 Cdn Div/4 Div CA – JTFC/FOIC)
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Today in Afro History ! Dr. Betty Shabazz, (wife of Malcolm X) passes away in 1997.
Today in Afro History ! Aaron Anderson is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1865 ! Joe Lewis knocks out Max Schmeling in 1938 !
Today in Afro History ! Civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner are murdered in Mississippi by Klu Klux Klan in 1964.
Today in Afro History ! Muhammad Ali is convicted of draft evasion after refusing induction into the armed services in 1967 ! Harry Belafonte become the first Afro American to win an Emmy in 1960 !
English: Bust portrait of Muhammad Ali, World Journal Tribune photo by Ira Rosenberg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! 2 years after The Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston Texas are finally informed of their freedom in 1865 . Celebrated as “Juneteenth” !
Today in Afro History ! U.S. Supreme Court bans housing discrimination in 1968, known as the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Signed into law by President Johnson. 3,000 Afro American Students boycott Boston Public schools over the quality of their education in 1963 !
Today in Afro History ! The Tuskegee Merchant Boycott begins in response to the attempt to exclude Afro American voters in Tuskegee Alabama in 1957.
English: “The Oaks”, former home of Booker T. Washington located on the Tuskegee University campus in Tuskegee, Alabama. The building is a contributing property to the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site and National Landmark. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: George Washington Carver (front row, center) poses with fellow staff members at the Tuskegee Institute (now known as Tuskegee University) located in the U.S. state of Alabama. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today in Afro History ! The “Soweto Uprising”. A non-violent march of over 10,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, turns violent when police open fire on the crowd in 1976. Kenneth A. Gibson becomes first Afro American Mayor of Newark in 1970 !
Today in Afro History ! Henry O. Flipper becomes the first Afro American to graduate from West Point in 1877 !
English: Photograph of Henry Ossian Flipper in his West Point cadet uniform. (http://www.usma.edu/Bicentennial/FlipperDinner.asp). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Photo of the first African American Graduate of West Point, Henry O. Flipper (Photo credit: Wikipedia)










