This Week In Black History ( May 25th – 31st )

May 25, 1878 – Tap dancer Luther Robinson, best known as Bill “Bojangles” Robinson was born in Richmond, Virginia.

May 26, 1949 – Blaxploitation film star, Pamela Suzette “Pam” Grier was born in Winston-Salem, N.C.

May 27, 1958 – Ernest Green was the first African-American to graduate from Little Rock’s Central High School with six hundred white classmates. (file photo)

File Photo

May 29, 1851 – Sojourner Truth delivers her infamous “Ain’t I A Woman?” speech to the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention.

May 30, 1943 – Gale Sayers, youngest player ever to be elected to the Football Hall of Fame was born in Wichita, Kansas.

May 31, 1881 – Booker T. Washington was recommended by General Armstrong for the principalship of the newly planned Tuskegee Institute.

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