United States – Georgia
William Conan Davis (1926-2022)
Scientist, inventor, and activist William Conan Davis, the first African American to earn a doctorate from the University of Idaho,...
The 1956 Sugar Bowl Football Game Controversy (1956)
The 1956 Sugar Bowl Football Game Controversy stemmed from a college bowl game played between the Georgia Tech University Yellow...
Floyd Adams Jr. (1945-2014)
Floyd Adams Jr. made history as the first African American to be elected mayor of Savannah, Georgia’s oldest city. Adams...
James Usry (1922-2002)
The first African American major of Atlantic City, James Leroy Usry, was born February 2, 1922, in Athens, Georgia. Shortly...
Tommy Davis (? – ?)
The Harlem Renaissance in New York City attracted African Americans from every part of the United States, the West Indies,...
Claude William Black Jr. (1916-2009)
Claude William Black Jr. was one of the most important advocates for civil rights and social justice in San Antonio,...
Howard Nathaniel Lee (1934- )
Howard Nathaniel Lee made history in 1969 as the first African American to be elected mayor of any majority-white city...
Connie Hawkins (1942-2017)
Six-foot-eight NBA Superstar legend Connie Hawkins, one of the first basketball players capable of swooping and soaring in flights to...
Vince Lamar Carter Jr. (1977- )
Vince Lamar Carter Jr, a former National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball player and T.V. producer, was born on January 26,...
