President Lyndon B. Johnson on this day in 1965 issues Executive Order 11246 which requires government contractors to ‘take affirmative action’ toward prospective Black employees in all aspects of hiring and employment.
On this day in 1957, soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division escorted nine Black Students to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. They later became the Little Rock Nine.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, accomplished free African writer, was born on this day in 1825.
Renowned writer, essayist, and feminist Gloria Jean Watkins, popularly known by her pen name bell hooks, was born on this day in 1952 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
Nobel Prize winner, professor and environmental activist Wangari Maathai of Kenya died on this day in 2011.
On this day in 1974, Barbara Hancock was named a White House Fellow, the first Black woman to be so named.
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