June 13, 1967: Thurgood Marshall was nominated to become the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. He became one of...

Happy Birthday to Hall of Fame pitcher William “Bill” Hendrick Foster (b. June 12, 1904, in Calvert, TX), who won 140 games while only...

June 11, 1911: Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities’ League (UNIA-ACL), a...

June 10, 1963: President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, mandating equal pay for equal work without gender...

June 9, 1915: William Jennings Bryan officially resigned as Secretary of State of the United States over a disagreement with President...

June 8, 1953: SCOTUS ruled that the 1872 and 1873 Washington, D.C. laws making restaurant segregation illegal were valid, ending their...

June 7, 1965: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that privacy was a right protected by the Constitution. More specifically, the court held: “A...

Happy Birthday to African American activist and abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond (b. June 6, 1826, in Salem, Massachusetts). She boldly...

June 5, 1917: The draft commenced for conscription into the U.S. army for World War I. Americans had debated conscription for the...

June 4, 1919: U.S. Congress passed the 19th Amendment, which became law 15 months later and gave some women the right to vote. However,...

Happy Birthday to African American star performer Josephine Baker (b. June 3, 1906, in St. Louis, MO), who performed across the globe and...

June 2, 1863: Harriet Tubman led 150 African American Union troops in the Combahee River Raid, freeing 750 enslaved people. This made her...

June 1, 1843: Isabella Baumfree renamed herself Sojourner Truth and left New York to launch her career as an activist. Formerly enslaved...

Happy Birthday to poet and author Walt Whitman (b. May 31, 1819, in Huntington, NY), who through his writing articulated a vision of...

May 30, 1937: More than 1,500 people attended a Republic Steel worker rally in Chicago to condemn both labor exploitation and police...

Happy Birthday to John F. Kennedy (b. May 29, 1917, in Brookline, MA), who was the thirty-fifth president of the United States from 1961...

Happy Birthday to Native American multi-sport athlete and gold medallist Jim Thorpe (b. May 28, 1887, in Indian Territory, OK), who for a...

Happy Birthday to editor, activist, and reformer Amelia Jenks Bloomer (b. May 27, 1818, in Homer, NY), who helped create and operate the...

Happy Birthday to jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Dewey Davis III (b. May 26, 1926, in Alton, IL), who resisted archetypes...

Happy Birthday to writer, philosopher, and abolitionist Ralph Waldo Emerson (b. May 25, 1803, in Boston, MA), who carefully combined...