Amanda Gorman born 1998. First person to be named “National Youth Poet Laureate”.

Thelma Harper

Thelma Harper 1940 – 2021. First Black Woman elected to the Tennessee legislature in 1989.

Cheri Beasley born in 1966, in 1989 became the the first Black woman to be Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.

François Clemmons born 1945 best known as “Officer Clemmons” on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood”

Ianne Fields Stewart Black, queer, transfeminine storyteller in theatre/activism.

White supremicist riot in Wilmington, NC in 1898.

Lorna Mahlock born 1969, first Black women to become a US Marine Corps General officer.

Baby Esther born Esther Lee Jones 1918 – 1921, date of death unknown. Singer and child entertainer in the 1920s.

Eugene “Gene” Brown first Black sheriff of San Francisco.

California Legislative Black Caucus formed in 1967. Genesis in 1918 with the election of Frederick M. Roberts, first Black California legislator.