Browse or search our African American History timeline. Events on the timeline include key moments in specific HistoryMaker's lives as well as important historical dates.
Research Physicist Darnell Diggs is born.
U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy sent U.S. Marshals to Montgomery, Alabama on this date to keep the peace between Freedom Riders who were testing the new integrated bus station laws and outraged Southern Whites.
R&B and pop singer Luther Vandross was born on this date in New York City. The Grammy-winning and multiplatinum artist is best known for his hits <I>Here and Now</I>, <I>Never Too Much</I>, and <I>Dance With My Father</I>.
Legislator & Nurse Shirley Nathan-Pulliam is born
Corporate Executive & Bank Chairman Charles C. Teamer, Sr. is born.
Arts Educator Della Hardman is born