November 20, 2021
Rev. Francis J. Grimke
Rev. Francis J. Grimke was a minister who was active in the fight against Jim Crow, for civil rights, and was a founding member of the NAACP. On this day in 1898, he gave a speech titled ‘The Negro Will Never Acquiesce As Long As He Lives”
Also on this day
On this day in 1910, Pauli Murray was born in Baltimore, Maryland. A human rights activist, lawyer, minister, and author, she is noted for coining the term ‘Jane Crow’ to highlight discrimination against women. She was later the first Black Woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest.
Garrett T. Morgan received a patent on this day in 1923 for inventing the traffic signal.
On this day in 1962, President Kennedy barred racial discrimination in federally financed housing through an executive order.