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Bishop Richard Allen, a minister, educator, writer, builder, and pacesetter, was born on this day in 1760 ‘near Dover, Delaware’. He founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first independent Black denomination in the United States.

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Morehouse College was founded on this day in 1867 in Augusta, Georgia, by William Jefferson White with the support of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. It was among the number of Black institutions set up to educate newly freed Africans.

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The National Negro Congress was established on this day in 1936 in Washington, DC. It was to respond to the multifaceted issues confronting Black people at the height of Jim Crow. Its membership was broadly based; it opposed war, fascism, discrimination, and white supremacy.

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On this day in 1965, a bomb exploded in the home of Malcolm X in New York City.