He was born on July 24, 1964, in Riverside, California.

Playwright and activist, Townsend Sonny Brewster was born, 1924

Congress passed resolution readmitting the state of Tennessee.

Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge is *believed* to have been born in Africa. Aldridge was an apprentice carpenter in Maryland, where he learned German and became interested in the theater. Aldridge played such roles as the Moorish Othello.

Riot, Cambridge, Maryland. National Guard mobilized.

Left of Black- Season 3, Episode 13

Mark Anthony Neal talks with Eric Deggans about his new book, Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation.

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Anthony Johnson, a free Black who was probably one of the first twenty settlers, received a grant of 250 acres of land in Northampton County, Va., for importing five persons. Johnson established a settlement on the banks of the Pungo teague River.

David Jones Peck was the first black man to graduate from an American medical school. He was born to John C. and Sarah Peck in Carlisle, Pennsylvania around 1826. John Peck was a prominent abolitionist and minister who founded the local African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Carlisle. Peck was also a barber and wigmaker.

John and Sarah Peck moved to Pittsburgh in the early 1830s where they established the first school for black children in the area.  David was one of their first students.  Between 1844 and 1846 David Peck studied medicine under Dr. Joseph P. Gaszzam, an anti-slavery white doctor in Pittsburgh.  He then entered Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois in 1846, three years after the institution opened.  After he graduated in 1847, Peck toured the state of Ohio with William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass promoting abolitionist ideals.  His status as the first black graduate of a medical college was used by abolitionists to promote the idea of full black citizenship and was implicitly an attack on slavery.

In 1849 Peck established his practice in Philadelphia. He lived in and worked from a red brick row house with his wife, Mary E. Peck, whom he married on July 24, 1849.  Pecks medical practice, however, was not successful.  Few doctors recognized his status, referred patients to him, or consulted with him.

Peck closed his medical practice in Philadelphia in 1851 and was preparing to travel to California when Martin Delany, an old friend and fellow Pittsburgh abolitionist, persuaded him instead to participate in an emigration project that would resettle U.S. free blacks in Central America.  

Delany, Peck, and other black emigrants moved to Nicaragua in 1852, settling on the east coast of the nation.  The emigrants established San Juan Del Norte with Delaney as the mayor and commander of the militia.  Peck practiced medicine and became the town physician.  In 1854 he joined the Liberal side in the Nicaraguan Civil War and was killed by cannon fire in the town of Granada in January

Karl Malone was born on July 24, 1963 in Summerfield, Louisiana. He was the son of Shirley and Shedrick and was the youngest of nine siblings. Karl was raised by his mother on a farm since his father was married to another woman and lived with her. He committed suicide when Karl was only 14. Karl went to local Summerfield High School where he led the basketball team to three consecutive Louisiana Class C titles. Growing up in Louisiana, Karl worked on a farm, chopping trees, fishing and hunting.

Karl attended Louisiana Tech University, where he joined the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs basketball team in his second year and played under coach, Andy Rosso. Malone was an All-Southland selection for  the three seasons that he played with the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs. During these seasons, Louisiana Tech advanced to NCAA tournament for the first time in school history. In the season of 1983-1984, Malone averaged 18.7 points and 9.3 rebounds per game.

Malone’s NBA career started in 1985, when he was picked 13th overall by Utah Jazz. Although Malone was certain that he will be picked eighth by Dallas Mavericks. He even rented an apartment in Dallas, but instead Utah Jazz picked him 13th. Later it was said that they would have picked him on a much higher number had they known the impact he would have on the NBA. Malone played under coach Frank Layden and in his first season averaged 14.9 points and 8.9 rebounds. In the season of 1987-1988, Malone became the offense, and made his first All-Star Game with an average of 27.1 points per game by the end of that season, he made his first ALL-NBA team. Malone signed a ten year contract worth $18 million in 1988. In 1988-1989 season, he averaged 29.1 points and 10.7 rebounds, which was the highest of his career. Malone continued to be selected in the All-NBA First Team from 1989 to 1999. In the summer of 2003, Malone signed a contract to play with the Los Angeles Lakers. Due to his knee injury, he missed 40 games but returned at the end of the season where he re-injured his knee in

Alexandre Dumas is born in Villiers-Cotterets to a Haitian mulatto, Thomas Alexandre Dumas, and Marie Labouret Dumas, a French woman. He will become an acclaimed author of the French classics The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Man in the Iron Mask, and The Corsican Brothers.

Dumas wrote hundreds of plays, novels and travel diaries. He wrote several childrens stories, and a culinary dictionary. He started several magazines and wrote in them weekly. He was one of the most prolific writers ever, and did not shy away from collaborating with others or rewriting older stories.

Race Riot, Washington, D.C. Triggered by raids on Black residential areas by white soldiers. Six persons killed and more than one hundred wounded.

Rwanda continued fighting against the Democratic Republic of the Congo throughout its four-year civil war. Finally, in July 2002, the two countries signed a peace accord: Rwanda promised to withdraw its 35,000 troops from the Congolese border; Congo in turn agreed to disarm the thousands of Hutu militiamen in its territory, who threatened Rwandan security.

In May 2003, 93% of Rwandans voted to approve a new constitution that instituted a balance of political power between Hutu and Tutsi. No party, for example, can hold more than half the seats in parliament. The constitution also outlawed the incitement of ethnic hatred. In Aug. 26 presidential elections, the first since the Rwandan genocide, Paul Kagame, who had served as president since 2000, won a landslide victory. In June 2004, Pasteur Bizimungu, the Hutu who had served as president between 1994 and 2000 (then–vice president Kagame held the real power), was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of inciting ethnic hatred. Many considered the trial politically motivated.

Economic and social conditions in Rwanda during President Kagames first term improved markedly. He has clamped down on corruption and crime, per capita income doubled between 2000 and 2008, life expectancy increased, and nearly half of the countrys children are completing primary school, compared to 20% pre-Kagame.

In 2004, a French judge asserted that Kagame was responsible for the 1994 downing of a plane that killed the presidents of both Rwanda and Burundi and set off ethnic violence that killed some 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu. Kagame vehemently denied the charge. In 2008, Rose Kabuye, a senior aide to Kagame, was arrested at Frankfurt International Airport on a warrant from France and charged in connection with the crash.

A UN court in Dec. 2008 convicted Col. Theoneste Bagosora, a Hutu extremist, of genocide for his involvement in the 1994 massacre of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu. He is the highest-ranking military official charged in connection with the genocide. Several

Lizzie Black Kander , née Lizzie Black (born May 28, 1858, Milwaukee, Wis., U.S.—died July 24, 1940, Milwaukee), American welfare worker who created a popular cookbook that became a highly profitable fund-raising tool for the institution she served.

Lizzie Black graduated from Milwaukee High School in 1878 and in May 1881 married Simon Kander, a businessman and local politician. From the age of 20 she was an active member of the Ladies Relief Sewing Society of Milwaukee, a group that collected and repaired discarded clothing and distributed it among poor immigrant families. She served as president of the society in 1894–95, and the next year she was chosen president of the newly organized Milwaukee Jewish Mission, whose purpose was to offer vocational and domestic training to children. In 1900 the mission joined with a similar organization, the Sisterhood of Personal Service, to establish Milwaukee’s first social settlement, known simply as “the Settlement,” of which Kander became president. With financial support from the Federated Jewish Charities of Milwaukee, the Settlement offered training in vocational and domestic skills and classes in English, American history, and music; it also established a gymnasium, organized boys’ and girls’ clubs, and otherwise served as a community centre. The cooking classes, in which Kander was personally involved, were especially popular, and to facilitate the distribution of recipes a collection of them was printed in book form in 1901 as The Settlement Cook Book: The Way to a Man’s Heart.

Advertising space was sold to finance the first edition, but the book proved to have great appeal beyond the cooking classes of the Settlement, and from the second edition it not only paid for itself but began returning profits to the Settlement. Kander continued to collect recipes from friends, teachers, and cooks around the world and to help edit subsequent editions; from 1914 she had sole editorial responsibility. By the late 1970s, when the subtitle was Treasured Recipes of Seven

Mary Eliza Church Terrell , née Mary Eliza Church (born Sept. 23, 1863, Memphis, Tenn., U.S.—died July 24, 1954, Annapolis, Md.), American social activist who was cofounder and first president of the National Association of Colored Women. She was an early civil rights advocate, an educator, an author, and a lecturer on woman suffrage and rights for African Americans.

Mary Church was the daughter of Robert Reed Church and Louisa Ayers Church, both former slaves prominent in the growing black community of Memphis, Tennessee. Both parents owned small, successful businesses, and they provided “Mollie” and her brother with advantages that few other African American children of her time enjoyed. She received a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College in Ohio in 1884. She taught languages at Wilberforce University and at a black secondary school in Washington, D.C. After a two-year tour of Europe, she completed a master’s degree from Oberlin (1888) and married Robert Heberton Terrell, a lawyer who would become the first black municipal court judge in the nation’s capital.

An early advocate of women’s rights, Terrell was an active member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, addressing in particular the concerns of black women. In 1896 she became the first president of the newly formed National Association of Colored Women, an organization that under her leadership worked to achieve educational and social reform and an end to discriminatory practices. Appointed to the District of Columbia Board of Education in 1895, Terrell was the first black woman to hold such a position. At the suggestion of W.E.B. Du Bois, she was made a charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and in 1949 she gained entrance to the Washington chapter of the American Association of University Women, bringing to an end its policy of excluding blacks.

An articulate spokeswoman, adept political organizer, and prolific writer, Terrell addressed a wide range of social issues in her long

Ira Frederick Aldridge International known Shakespearean Actor born today in New York City

1921 : Billy Taylor, jazz musician, born

First Black person to serve on the DC board of education, Mary Church Terrell dies, 1954

Race riot, New Orleans. Two white policemen killed.

1893 : Charles S. Johnson, sociologist, founder of the National Urban Leagues Opportunity magazine and professor and President of Fisk University, born

Freeman was born July 24, 1953, in Vanceboro, North Carolina, to Rose Lee Smith and Joseph Freeman Sr.

Walter Charles Carrington served as the United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Senegal from 1980 to 1981, and to Nigeria from 1993 to 1997. He married Arese Ukpoma, a Nigerian physician, and has lived in three Nigerian cities since the late 1960s.

Carrington was born July 24, 1930 in New York City, New York to Marjorie Irene Hayes Carrington and Walter Randolph Carrington, an immigrant from Barbados. Raised in the predominantly Italian-Irish community of Everett, Massachusetts, Carrington was elected vice president of his class while at both Parlin Junior High and Everett High School. Graduating in 1948, Carrington became one of only four black students at Harvard University at the time.  He also founded the first Harvard chapter of the NAACP and, as its Youth Council delegate, visited Senegal.  He was also vice chair of the Students for Stevenson organization when Adlai Stevenson campaigned in 1952 as the Democratic candidate for President. Carrington graduated from Harvard with a Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) degree in 1952.

Entering the United States Army in 1955, Carrington served as a clerk typist in Germany. One of his assignments was with the Judge Advocate General Corps (Germany, 1955–1957).  After the service, he enrolled in Harvard Law School, earning his J.D. degree in 1958.

When Carrington was twenty-seven years old he was appointed commissioner of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.  A year later he entered into practice and eventually became a partner with the law firm of Naples, Carrington and Ruland. Carrington worked on the John F. Kennedy campaign for President in 1960 and from 1961 to 1971 served in the Peace Corps, eventually becoming the Peace Corps director of Africa. He then served as executive vice president of the Africa-American Institute from 1971 to 1979, and was also a member of Africare. In 1981 Carrington was named director of the Department of International Affairs at Howard University. He also taught at Marquette University in Wisconsin,

Kenneth Bancroft Clark was born on this day.