This Week In Black History – June 29, 2023

June 29, 1886 – Photographer James Van Der Zee born.

June 30, 1921 – Charles S. Gilping awarded Springarn Medal for his performance in Eugene O’Neill’s Emperor Jones.

July 1, 1889 – Frederick Douglass named U.S. Minister to Haiti.

July 2, 1872 – Elijah McCoy patents his first self-lubricating locomotive engine. The quality of his inventions helped coin the phrase “The Real McCoy”.

July 3, 1688 – The Quakers in Germantown, PA, make the first formal protest against slavery.

July 4, 1900 – Trumpeter Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, jazz pioneer, born.

July 5, 1892 – Andrew J. Beard patents rotary engine.