September 15: Hall of fame inventor, Jan Ernst Matzeliger, is born - TopicsExpress



          

September 15: Hall of fame inventor, Jan Ernst Matzeliger, is born in 1852. Claude McKay is born in 1889. The National Afro-American Council, the first nationwide civil rights organization in the U.S., is founded in 1898. Grammy Award winning opera singer, Jessye Mae Norman, is born in 1945. Four little girls are killed in a Church bombing in Birmingham, AL in 1963. The U.S. Army commissioned the Logical Support Vessel-8 Major General Robert Smalls, the first army vessel named for a Black man, in 2007. #knowmore
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 10:52:34 +0000

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