Fashion designer Jermicko Shoshanna Johnson founds her own label, Jermick Shoshanna Johnson Originals in1991"> Chicago, Illinois.

Labor organizer1991"> A. Philip Randolph passes away in New York City.

Physicist1991"> Walter Massey is named to the directorship of the Argonne National Laboratory.

Robert Maynard became the first African American to be head of a major daily newspaper on this date in Oakland. He bought the Oakland Tribune in 1983.

Richard Arrington was elected as1991"> Birmingham, Alabama's first Black mayor on this date.