African American History Calendar

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Henry Highland Garnett calls for general slave strike in Buffalo, NY - 1843

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August 31, 1836 - Henry Blair patents cotton planter. Henry Blair was the second black inventor to receive a patent the first was Thomas Jennings who received a patent in 1821 for a dry cleaning process. He was born in Glen Ross, Maryland, United States in 1807. Henry Blair was the only inventor to be identified in the Patent Office records as "a colored man."

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Federal Government arms 5,000 slaves - 1862

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August 25, 1908 - National Association of Colored Nurses founded.

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August 26, 1920 - 19th Amendment to the Constitution ratified, giving women the right to vote.

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W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) is widely recognized as a significant figure: for his pursuit of social justice, for his literary imagination, and for his pioneering social-scientific studies. He is read with profit today in the academic fields of sociology, literature, and history, and in the trans-disciplinary realms of urban studies and gender studies. Nevertheless, Du Bois was, and remains still, a contentious figure.

W.E.B. DuBois challenged the oppressive dimensions of the society in which he lived. His increasingly radical stances on the political and economic issues of his day, as well as his emigration to Ghana, heightened his controversy in some circles. For many, time has not lessened the more provocative aspects of his life.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads a march on Washington and delivers his "I have a dream" speech - 1963.

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August 28, 1888 - Granville T. Woods patents railway telegraphy.