Black Facts for October 28th

Founder of The Underground Railroad, Levi Coffin, born, 1798
Founder of The Underground Railroad, Levi Coffin, born, 1798
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Source: Blackfacts.com
Oct
28
1798
Louisville Western Branch Library (1905- )
The Louisville Western Branch Library in Louisville, Kentucky, first opened in 1905. This library was the first public library in the nation to serve and be fully operated by black residents. In 1905 virtually all other public libraries around the country were closed to African
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Source: Black Past
Oct
28
1908
Ben Harper
Ben Harper is an American musician, known for his success as an artist, instrumental skills and social activism. He was born on October 28, 1969 as Benjamin Chase Harper to Leonard and Ellen-Chase Verdries in Pomona, California. His father was African American and his mother was Jewish. He came
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Source: Black History Resources
Sponsored by Museum of African American History in Massachusetts
Oct
28
1969
First Kansas Colored Volunteers repulsed and drove
First Kansas Colored Volunteers repulsed and drove off superior force of rebels at Island Mound, Missouri. This was the first engagement for Black troops.
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Source: Blackfacts.com
Oct
28
1862
Bouchet, Edward Alexander (1852-1918)
Edward Alexander Bouchet was born on September 15, 1852 in New Haven, Connecticut to William Francis and Susan Cooley Bouchet. Edward attended the segregated primary school in New Haven and later finished his secondary education at Hopkins Grammar School in 1870. An outstanding
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Source: Black Past
Oct
28
1918
Wilkens, Lenny (1937- ) - Birthday
Leonard Randolph Wilkens was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 28, 1937, son of an African American father and white mother.
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Source: Black Past
Sponsored by Greater Boston Veterans Collaborative
Oct
28
1937
Lt. Gen. Frank E. Petersen, USMC (Ret.)
Lt. Gen. Frank E. Petersen, was born 1932 in Topeka, Kansas. At the age of 20, he was the first Afro-American to be named a naval aviator
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Source: Blackfacts.com
Oct
28
2001
Still, William Grant (1895-1978)
Considered by many as the dean of African American composers,William Grant Still, the son of educators, was born in Woodville, Mississippi onMay 11, 1895.  His father, a musician whoonce taught music at Alabama A&M College,died when he was an infant; his mother, a schoolteacher, moved to Little
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Source: Black Past
Oct
28
1931
Stanfield, Sylvia Gaye (1943- ) - Birthday
Ambassador Stanfield was born on October 28, 1943, in Houston, Texas.
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Source: Black Past
Oct
28
1943
African-American music
African-American music is an umbrella term covering a diverse range of musics and musical genres largely developed by African Americans. Their origins are in musical forms that arose out of the historical condition of slavery that characterized the lives of African Americans prior to the American
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Source: AA Studies Research Guide
Oct
28
2009
Mayor of Augusta Georgia
Edward M. McIntrye elected first Black mayor of Augusta, Georgia.
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Source: Blackfacts.com
Oct
28
1981
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