This Day in History: The U.S. Justice Department sues Mississippi officials for ignoring the voting ballots of blacks in that state

This Day in History: Alice Parker, an African American, patented the gas heating furnace

This Day in History: Patricia Roberts Harris, first Black woman appointed to presidential cabinet

This Day in History:Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson was born

This Day in History: Jamaican Olympian George Rhoden was born

This Day in History: Portia Simpson Miller was born

This Day in History:George Kerr took gold for Jamaica in the Commonwealth Games

This Day in History: Lyda A. Newman