National Museum of African Americans on Stamps
Keeper of the Past and Promise of our People
1955 – Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, AL leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 1957 – Little Rock Nine integrate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. 1960 – Four Black student stage famous sit-in at a whites-only Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. 1961 – Freedom rides
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Week of January 20 1/20/1992 – President Bush declares M. L. King, Jr. birthday national holiday. 1/21/1824 – Osai Tutu Kwamina defeated British at Assamaka, Ashanti. 1/22/1793 – Benjamin Banneker helped plan Washington, DC. 1/23/1977 – First ABC-TV showing of “Roots”. 1/24/1991 – Aids recognized as major health threat to African Americans 1/25/1966 – Constance B. Motley appointed federal judge,
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. His religious upbringing in the King home shaped his destiny and thereby shaped the destiny of Black Americans, now and for evermore. He graduated from Morehouse College at the age of nineteen and entered Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. He graduated at the top of his class
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Happy New Year and Welcome to 2019! As we celebrate and look forward to the coming year here are some history making events that happened this week. We will post some more through out this year. Thanks for visiting. 1/6/1773 – Massachusetts slaves petition for freedom. 1/7/1923 – Roland Hayes acclaimed after Boston recital. 1/8/1811 – Slave revolt in New
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