CARLATA BRADLEY

Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun (Moseley-Braun)

TIM MAGUIRE

James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955)

Niagara Movement members began meeting on the Canadian side of the
Niagara Falls on this day in 1905. This all-African American group of
scholars, lawyers and businessmen came together for three days to
create what would soon become a powerful post-slavery Black rights
organization. Although it only lasted five years, the Niagara Movement
was an influential precursor to the civil rights movement of the mid-20th
century.

Booker Taliaferro Washington
(April 18, 1856 – November 14, 1915)

SANDY KOZEL

On this day in 1970, an oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13,
preventing a planned moon landing.

On February 12, 1909, the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, 
a group that included African American leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois 
and Ida B. Wells-Barnett announced the formation of a new organization 
Called the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
it would have a profound effect on the struggle for civil rights and the
course of 20th Century American history. The conference that led to
the NAACP’s founding had been called in response to a race riot in
Illinois.

A silent march in New York to protest the police treatment of blacks during riots in East St. Louis in 1917. They marched down Fifth
Avenue on that summer Saturday without saying a word.