Kate Brown, an African American Senate employee in charge of the ladies’ retiring room, boarded a train from Washington, D.C. to Alexandria, Virginia and took
Harvey Firestone (Manufacturer)
Nicholas II (Last Tsar of Russia)
W.E.B. Bois (Scholar, Sociologist, Civil Rights Leader)
President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion that resulted in the Civil War.
General George Armstrong Custer led an early morning attack on the Cheyenne living with Chief Black Kettle, destroying the village and killing more than 100
The Opelousas Massacre occurred in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Beginning with the execution of 27 black prisoners, whites conducted widespread attacks of African Americans
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing due process of law, was declared in effect.
Christopher Lathaim Shales received a patent for an invention he called a “Type-Writer.”
Treaty of Bosque Redondo was signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.
