BLACK HISTORY FACTS THAT HAPPEN ON THIS DATE APRIL 14TH: The first abolitionist society in the United States was founded by the Pennsylvania Quakers in Philadelphia, PA, on this date in 1775. Benjamin Banneker, inventor, surveyor, mathematician, astronomer, and one of the planners of Washington DC, accurately predicted a solar eclipse would occur on this date in 1789. A Supreme Court decision in the Slaughterhouse cases, on this date in 1873, weakened the 14th Amendment. The Court ruled that the Amendment only protected federal civil rights but not civil rights belonging to the states. John Wesley Cromwell, editor, historian, and Secretary of the American Negro Academy, died in Washington, DC, on this date in 1927. William Henry Hastie, the first Black to sit on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the first Black Governor of the Virgin Islands, died in Philadelphia, PA, on this date in 1976.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:23:15 +0000
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