Each month The Courier Times will look back in time and provide you with a bit of African-American History.

Did You Know?

July 28, 1868
The 14th Amendment was passed as a law making blacks citizens.

July 31, 1874
Patrick Francis Healy, S.J., inaugurated as president of Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic University in America, and became the first Black to head a predominantly white university.

July 31, 1921
Whitney M. Young Jr., Civil Rights leader was born in Lincoln Ridge, Kentucky.

August 9, 1905
Robert N.C. Nix, first African American representative from Pennsylvania and 11 term congressman, was born on this day.

August 17, 1887
Marcus Garvey, the father of the Black Nationalist and Pan African movements was born on this day in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica.

August 24, 1950
Edith Sampson, first Black appointed to United Nations by Harry S Truman.