Patrick Francis Healy became the first Black to be awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He entered the Catholic Jesuit Order, ordained a Catholic priest and began his career as a university professor at Georgetown University. He was later selected as the President of Georgetown.
On this day in 1847, free Africans and former enslaved peoples who had returned to Africa, proudly declared the new independent republic of Liberia. Joseph Jenkins Roberts, who had migrated from Virginia, became the first president of the new nation.
In 1948 on this day, President Harry Truman issued an Executive Order ordering “equality of treatment and opportunity” in the nation’s Armed Forces.
The Spingarn Medal was awarded to Carter G. Woodson on this day in 1926 for his “devoted service in collecting and publishing the records of the Negro in America”.
At the history-making, maiden Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York on this day in 1848 Frederick Douglass became the only male to play a major role when he seconded the woman’s motion proposed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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