1st - 1965:
700 people jailed in Selma, AL demanding African American voting rights
- 1978:
First US postage stamp to honor an African American woman, Harriet Tubman,
is issued
4th - 1913:
Birth of Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer
9th - 1944:
Birth of activist/novelist Alice Walker
10th - 1927:
Birth of Leontyne Price, first African American international opera star
12th - 1809:
Birth of Abraham Lincoln
18th - 1688:
Quakers at Germantown, PA adopt first formal anti- slavery resolution in
US history
20th - 1931:
US deports thousands of Mexicans, many of them US citizens
22nd - 1732:
Birth of George Washington, first US president (slave owner and hemp
grower)