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August 1, 1874 – business leader Charles Clinton Spaulding was born in Columbus County, North Carolina
August 1, 1920 – Henrietta Lacks was born in Roanoke, Virginia
August 2, 1924 – writer, essayist, dramatist, and poet James Arthur Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York
August 2, 1931 – pianist, composer, author, and journalist Philippa Duke Schuyler was born in Harlem, New York
August 3, 1798 – abolitionist Kwaku Walker Lewis was born Barre, Massachusetts
August 4, 1810 – abolitionist Robert Purvis was born in Charleston, South Carolina
August 4, 1857 – journalist, editor, political activist, and politician George Edwin Taylor was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1904, he was the candidate of the National Negro Liberty Party for President of the United States. He was the first African American to run for president.
August 4, 1901 – trumpeter and vocalist Louis Daniel Armstrong was born in New Orleans, Louisiana
August 4, 1961 – 44th President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu, Hawaii
August 5, 1763 – boxer Bill Richmond also known as the Black Terror, was born in Staten Island, New York
August 5, 1938 – theologian Reverend James Hal Cone was born in Fordyce, Arkansas
August 5, 2014 – The killing of John Crawford III occurred. Crawford was a 22-year-old African-American man shot and killed by a police officer in a Walmart store in Beavercreek, Ohio, near Dayton, while he was holding a BB gun that was for sale in the store. A grand jury declined to indict the two officers involved on criminal charges.
August 7, 1904 – political scientist, diplomat, and advocate of decolonization Ralph Johnson Bunche was born in Detroit, Michigan
August 8, 1866 – explorer Matthew Alexander Henson was born in Nanjemoy, Maryland
August 9, 1877 – athlete Abner Leonard Howell was born in De Soto Parish, Louisiana
August 9, 1912 – Broadway performer Anne Wiggins Brown was born in Baltimore, Maryland
August 9, 1963 – singer, actress, and film producer Whitney Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey
August 9, 1967 – NFL legend Deion Luwynn Sanders Sr. was born in Fort Myers, Florida
August 10, 1854 – photographer James Conway Farley was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia
August 11, 1873 – actor and composer John Rosamond Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida
August 11, 1921 – writer and author Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was born in Ithaca, New York
August 14, 1883 – biologist, academic and writer Ernest Everett Just was born in Charleston, South Carolina
August 14, 1894 – dancer, jazz singer, vaudevillian, and nightclub owner Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith better known as "Bricktop" was born in Alderson, West Virginia
August 14, 1914 – physicist and chemist Herman Russell Branson was born in Pocahontas, Virgina
August 14, 1959 – NBA legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson was born in Lansing, Michigan
August 14, 1966 – Oscar-winning actress Halle Maria Berry was born in Cleveland, Ohio
August 15, 1817 – pioneer George Washington was born near Winchester, Virginia. He was the founder of Centralia, Washington
August 15, 1938 – U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters was born in St. Louis, Missouri
August 16, 1922 – journalist and author Louis Emanuel Lomax was born in Valdosta, Georgia
August 16, 1902 – novelist and screenwriter Wallace Henry Thurman was born in Salt Lake City, Utah
August 16, 1958 – actress Angela Evelyn Bassett was born in New York City, New York
August 17, 1837 – anti-slavery activist, poet, and educator Charlotte Louise Bridges Grimké was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
August 18, 1907 – composer Howard Swanson was born in Atlanta, Georgia
August 18, 1932 – architect and professor Leon Bridges was born in Los Angeles, California
August 19, 1909 – Diplomat, scholar and author Hugh Heyne Smythe was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
August 20, 1619 – twenty Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, aboard the Dutch ship, the White Lion. They are the first blacks to be forcibly settled as enslaved people in the North American British Colonies.
August 20, 1899 – zoologist, biologist, and marine biologist Roger Arliner Young was born in Clifton Forge, Virginia
August 20, 1931 – boxing promoter Don King was born in Cleveland, Ohio
August 20, 1941 – politician William Herbert Gray III was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
August 20, 1942 – singer, songwriter, composer, and actor Isaac Lee Hayes was born in Covington, Tennessee
August 21, 1904 – pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer William James "Count" Basie was born in Red Bank, New Jersey
August 21-23, 1831 – Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Southampton, Virginia.
August 21, 1932 – actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer Melvin Van Peebles was born in Chicago, Illinois
August 21, 1936 – basketball legend Wilton Norman Chamberlain was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
August 21, 1945 – NFL legend Willie Lanier was born in Clover, Virginia
August 22, 1912 – blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist John Lee Hooker was born in Tutwiler, Mississippi
August 23, 1978 – NBA legend Kobe Bean Bryant was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
August 25, 1927 – tennis legend Althea Neale Gibson was born in Clarendon County, South Carolina
August 26, 1918 – mathematician Creola Katherine Johnson was born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
August 26, 1960 – saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Branford Marsalis was born in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana
August 26, 1946 – singer and producer Valerie Simpson Ashford was born in the Bronx, New York
August 27, 1909 – saxophonist Lester Willis Young was born in Woodville, Mississippi
August 28, 1955 – Emmett Till was kidnapped and lynched in Money, Mississippi
August 29, 1920 – musician Charlie "Bird" Parker was born in Kansas City, Kansas
August 29, 1920 – inventor and engineer Otis Frank Boykin was born in Dallas, Texas
August 29, 1921 – stock car racing driver Wendell Oliver Scott Sr. was born in Danville, Virginia
August 29, 1924 – singer Dinah Washington was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
August 29, 1958 – singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist, "The King of Pop", Michael Joseph Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana
August 30, 1901 – civil rights activist Roy Ottoway Wilkins was born in St. Louis, Missouri
August 30, 1948 – activist and revolutionary Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. was born in Chicago, Illinois
August 31, 1928 – United States Secret Service agent Charles LeRoy Gittens was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts
August 31, 1935 – former Black Panther Party minister of information Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas
August 31, 1935 – baseball legend Frank Robinson was born in Beaumont, Texas
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