Willie Simms wins both the Kentucky Derby and the Brighton Handicap this year.

Frazier Baker, recently appointed postmaster of Lake City, South Carolina and his infant daughter Julia are killed and his wife and three other daughters are maimed for life when a lynch mob sets after them. Citizens of the small town of 500 residents set fire to the post office, where the Bakers live, and shoot them as they run out.

J.W. Smith patents his lawn sprinkler

W.J. Ballow patents his combined hat rack and table.

Singer, actor, athlete, and activist Paul Robeson was born on this date in Princeton, New Jersey. He was a two-time All-American football player at Rutgers University and attended Columbia Law School. He is best known for his singing and acting work in the theatre and in films like Showboat and King Solomon's Mines. He is also known for his rendition of Ol' Man River.

Retired Beautician, Artist & Beauty Shop Owner Louisiana Hines is born.

Educator and civil rights activist Septima Clark was born on this date in Charleston, South Carolina. Clark was a teacher and a member of the SCLC and NAACP.

Louisiana adopts a new constitution, which incorporates a "grandfather clause" into voting requirements. It states that a person may only vote if their father or grandfather was eligible to vote on or before January 1, 1867, thereby disqualifying most blacks. By 1910, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama and Oklahoma have also adopted "grandfather clauses."

The Buffalo Soldiers Black 10th Calvary relieved Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders on this date in Cuba. They charged and attacked Spanish forces who were in conflict with the United States.

René and his younger brother, Leon, will go on to found Exclusive and Excelsior Records in Los Angeles in the 1930s. Some of the artists they produce for include Nat "King" Cole and Johnny Otis.

North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance, the first Black-owned insurance company was founded on this date in Durham, North Carolina.

At least nine African Americans were killed as 2,000 whites marched the streets, burning homes and businesses, including the offices of The Daily Record, a black owned newspaper. More than 1,400 blacks and many white Republicans fled the city. As a result, the legally elected mayor and several members of the city council were forced from power; the new mayor, Alfred Moore Wadell, a former Confederate officer and United States Congressman, was also the leader of the riots.

Bob Cole wrote and co-produced the first Black musical comedy with William F. Johnson on this date in New York City. The production was called A Trip to Coontown, and it was the first off-Broadway production written, performed, and owned by African Americans.