Social activist Audrey Grevious is born in Lexington, Kentucky.

Fannie B. Peck founds the Housewives' League of Detroit. The organization is committed to supporting the black business community, and within four years, membership has grown to 10,000.

Nella Larsen, author of Passing and Quicksand, is awarded a Guggenheim Foundation award for creative writing, the first African American to receive such an award. With the funds from the award, she travelled to Europe, but despair over her divorce returned her to New York City where she worked quietly as a nurse for the next thirty years. She passed away in 1964.

Caterina Jarboro becomes the first African American to perform with a major opera company when she sings in the title role of Aida at the Puccini Opera House in Milan, Italy. She will go on to be the first African American to perform in Aida in the United States in 1933.

Historical researcher Barbara Dodson Walker is born in Washington, D.C.

Founder and conductor of the Wooten Choral Ensemble, Robert E. Wooten, Sr., is born in Chicago.

Educator Dr. Jacob Carruthers is born in Dallas, Texas.

Educator & Foundation Administrator Jeanne Martin Brayboy is born.

Dancer, choreographer, and dance director Louis Johnson was born on this date in Statesville, North Carolina.

The NAACP successfully fights President Herbert Hoover’s nomination of the racist Judge John J. Parker to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Graphic artist, writer, painter and cartoonist James Hiram Malone was born on this date in Winterville, Georgia.

Negro League baseball player and Korean War veteran Johnny Washington is born in Chicago, Illinois.

Negro Ensemble Company co-founder Douglas Turner Ward was born on this date in Burnside, Louisiana.

Following the death of Justice Edward T. Sanford, President Herbert Hoover nominates John J. Parker, a known racist, to the Supreme Court. The NAACP leads a successful campaign to prevent him from being confirmed by the United States Senate. In his stead Justice Owen J. Roberts is confirmed.

Playwright Lorraine Hansberry was born on this date in Chicago, Illinois. Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, was the first play produced by a Black woman for Broadway.

Surgeon and educator Dr. LaSalle Leffall is born in Tallahassee, Florida.

Mercer Cook is born in Washington, D.C. He will serve in a number of prominent positions in the legal profession, including serving as Deputy State's Attorney in Cook County, Illinois.

Following the lead of the New York City Board of Education, The New York Times announces that it too will capitalize the "N" in the word "Negro."

New York Congressman Charles Rangel is born in Harlem, New York.

Bishop Barbara C. Harris is born on this date in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Community activist Jorja English Palmer is born in New Madrid, Missouri.

W.D. Fard announces the founding of the Temple of Islam, later to become Temple Number 1 of the Nation of Islam, in Detroit, Michigan. The religious sect incorporates Koranic teachings, Christianity, black nationalism and Fard's own beliefs. Fard later left Michigan following a series of arrests for "cult activities."

Professor, college dean and author Ione D. Vargus is born on this date in Medford, Massachusetts. Vargus helped found the Family Reunion Institute at Temple University.

Dr. Charles H. Epps, Jr., who has trained more African American men and women in orthopedic surgery than anyone in the world, is born in Baltimore, Maryland.

Former Ambassador, lawyer and college professor Walter C. Carrington is born on this date in New York City.

Retired Architectural Firm Executive Leatrice McKissack is born.

Artist Sam Greenlee is born in Chicago, Illinois.

Luther Robinson, an African American dancer and vaudeville artist who is nicknamed "Bojangles" makes his film debut in Dixiana.

Lawyer and corporate executive Rufus McKinney is born in Joneboro, Arkansas.

Russell L. Adams, former chair of Afro-American Studies at Howard University, is born in Baltimore, Maryland.

Bass soloist and educator Willie Brown, Jr. is born on this date in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Painter and actor Geoffrey Holder is born in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

Bank official and civic administrator Sidney L. Rushing is born in Carthage, Mississippi.

Minister Rev. Dr. Barbara King is born

Graphic designer Frank Lucas is born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Turner Broadcasting executive and Trumpet Awards founder Xernona Clayton was born on this date in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Former Harlem Globetrotter Charles Holton is born.

Florida Supreme Court Judge Leander Shaw is born in Salem, Virginia.

Museum founder and curator Dr. James Eaton is born in Richmond, Virginia.

Attorney Edward N. Smith is born in Detroit, Michigan.

Soul musician Ray Charles was born on this date in Albany, Georgia. Some of Charles' hits include I Got A Woman, Night Time Is The Right Time, and Mess Around. He was inducted into the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.

Artist Faith Ringgold was born on this date in New York. Ringgold is known for her painted story quilts. Some of her work includes The American People Series, We Came to America, and Born in a Cotton Field.

Country blues pioneer "Blind" Lemon Jefferson died on this date in Chicago. Some of Jefferson's songs include Long Lonesome Blues and Hangman's Blues.

The play, Blackbirds of 1930 opened on Broadway on this date in New York.

Gospel Singer Ann Yancy is born.

Singer, Songwriter & Minister Mable John is born.

Clarence Pendleton, Jr. was born on this date in Louisville, Kentucky. Pendleton was the first Black chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He was appointed to this position by President Ronald Reagan.

Retired Marketing Executive Henry H. Brown is born.

Educator and coach Larry Hawkins is born in Chicago, Illinois.

Jazz Musician & Entrepreneur Ben Tucker is born.

Educator and basketball referee Kenneth R. Walker, Sr. is born in East Providence, Rhode Island.

Corporate executive Herman J. Russell is born in Atlanta, Georgia.

Colonel William M. Taylor, military public information officer, was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Blues and folks singer Odetta F. Gordon was born on this date in Birmingham, Alabama. Some of Gordon's album's include Looking For a Home and To Ella.

Singer and songwriter Odetta Gordon, also known only as Odetta, is born on this date in Birmingham, Alabama.