Jackie Robinson, the first Black person to play in Major League Baseball, is inducted to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York in 1962.
On this day in 1984, Vanessa Williams, the first Black woman to be Ms. America, was forced to surrender her crown after a scandal on photographs. She was succeeded by Suzette Charles, another Black Woman.
The first ever Pan African Congress was held in London on this day in 1900. It was the first time that people of African descent met to deliberate on the conditions of Blacks under colonialism, imperialism and second-class citizenship around the world. Sylvester Williams, W.E.B. DuBois, and Bishop Alexander Walters were among the people who attended.
E. Lynn Harris, a major Black novelist who specialized in Black male gay life, passed away on this day in Los Angeles.
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