1867: Post Civil War voter registration began including 700,000 blacks.

1881: The last significant battle involving Seminole Indian black scouts occurred.

1845: Macon Allen became the first black admitted to the bar in Maine.

1961: Freedom riders left Washington to test desegregation of public facilities en route to New Orleans, Louisiana.

1905: National Day of Prayer.

1895: Gladys Ross, co-founder of Phi Delta Kappa Sorority for black teachers died.

1963: The arrest of more than 2,000 demonstrators in Birmingham resulted in an agreement to end demonstration.

The Volcano Mount Peele in the Caribbean, erupt killing 30,000 people.

1800: Birth date of absolutists John Brown who led the 1859 assault on Harpers Ferry.

1837: Pickney Pinchback, a reconstruction era politician and public servant, was born.

Mother`s Day

1807-1867: Birth date of Ira Aldridge, Great 19th century black actor, famous throughout the world.

1871: Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, Ky., following sit-in staged by a black teenager.

1950: Birth date of composer and musician Steveland Judkins, best known as Stevie Wonder.

1899: Sgt. William McBryar was presented the Congressional Medal of honor for action against hostiles.

1939: It is believed that the City Rochester, New York began the nation's first food stamp system.

1954: The United States Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. Board of Education that is illegal to segregate schools.

1896: The United States Supreme Court upheld Louisiana's segregated Railroad Car Law.

1930: Birth date of playwright Lorriane Hansberry.

1923: Phi Delta Kappa Sorority was founded in New Jersey.

1917: Leo Pinckney, the first American drafted during World War I; 1904-1943: Birth date of (Thomas) Fast Waller, Jazz pianist and composer

1948: Died Claude McKay, Novelist and poet; 1957: Died Langston Hughes, poet laureate

South African troops in Nambia.

1856: Abolitionist John Brown led the attack on Pottawatomie, Kansas.

1878: Tap Dancer Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson was born in Richmond, Virginia.

Memorial Day

1854: Stephen Douglass led congress in passing the Kansa-Nebraska Act which nullified the Missouri Compromise.

1936: Actor Louis Gossett, Jr., was born in Brooklyn, New York. He won the academy Award for an Officer and A Gentleman.

1944: Birth date of singer Gladys Knight.

1989: The remains of 19 black Union soldiers were reburied.

1903: Countee Cullen, poet, born in Baltimore