Wyatt Outlaw, leader of the Alamance County, NC, Union League, was killed by lynching on this date in 1870.
Theodore "Tiger" Flowers, defeated Harry Greb and became the first Black World Middleweight Boxing Champion on this date in 1926.
Antoine "Fats" Domino, famed singer, was born New Orleans, LA, on this date in 1928. "Ain't That a Shame" and "Blueberry Hill" are two of his best-known songs.
The Green Pastures opened at Mansfield Theater on this date in 1930. The play, written by Marc Connelly, starred Richard B. Harrison as "De Lawd" and ran 557 shows.
"With his Uncle Tom God, Connelly crafts a religious vision that can satisfy his spiritual needs while affirming his own white liberal racism and defending the white, middle-class status quo." "The point of Green Pastures is not […] whether God must learn suffering, but rather whether men may judge his fellowmen from without."
Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, died of injuries inflicted by police officers in Marion, AL, on this date in 1965. Jackson was shot eight days earlier while defending his mother as their group was attacked while leaving a voting-rights meeting.
1926-Carter G. Woodson started Negro History Week. This week would later become Black History Month.
In a sense, today marks the celebration and grieving, the mistakes and the lessons for not just all of Black History Month but life as a whole.
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