On this day in 1864, The New Orleans Tribune, the first daily Black newspaper, begins publishing.
Two Black women’s organizations, the National Federation of Afro-American Women and the Colored Women’s League, came together to form the National Association of Colored Women in Washington, DC, in 1896. Mary Church Terrell became the first president of the new group.
On this day in 1951, PFC William H. Thompson became the first Black person to be awarded the Army’s highest award, the Medal of Honor, for his bravery during the Korean War.
James (Jim) Clyburn, long-serving congressman from South Carolina, is born on this day in 1940.
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