His birth name was Malcolm Little and he was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska to Louise and Earl Little.

Malcolm X , original name Malcolm Little, Muslim name el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (born May 19, 1925, Omaha, Nebraska, U.

Eccentric model and singer Grace Jones born in Spanishtown, Jamaica

Patricia R. Harris named ambassador to Luxembourg. She was the first Black woman ambassador.

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska.

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother, Louis Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the familys eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Earls civil rights activism prompted death threats from the white supremacist organization Black Legion, forcing the family to relocate twice before Malcolms fourth birthday. Regardless of the Littles efforts to elude the Legion, in 1929 their Lansing, Michigan home was burned to the ground, and two years later Earls mutilated body was found lying across the towns trolley tracks. Police ruled both accidents, but the Littles were certain that members of the Black Legion were responsible. Louise had an emotional breakdown several years after the death of her husband and was committed to a mental institution. Her children were split up amongst various foster homes and orphanages.

Malcolm was a smart, focused student and graduated from junior high at the top of his class. However, when a favorite teacher told Malcolm his dream of becoming a lawyer was no realistic goal for a nigger, Malcolm lost interest in school. He dropped out, spent some time in Boston, Massachusetts working various odd jobs, and then traveled to Harlem, New York where he committed petty crimes. By 1942 Malcolm was coordinating various narcotic, prostitution and gambling rings.

Eventually Malcolm and his buddy, Malcolm Shorty Jarvis, moved back to Boston, where they were arrested and convicted on burglary charges in 1946. Malcolm placated himself by using the seven-year prison sentence to further his education. It was during this period of self-enlightenment that Malcolms brother Reginald visited and discussed his recent conversion to the Muslim religious organization the Nation of Islam. Intrigued, Malcolm studied the teachings of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. Muhammad taught that white society actively worked to keep African-Americans from

Willy T. Ribbs becomes the first African American driver to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.

The granddaughter of a freed slave, Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930, to a successful real estate broker and a school teacher who resided in Chicago, Illinois. In 1938, the family moved to a white neighborhood and was violently attacked by its inhabitants but the former refused to vacate the area until ordered to do so by the Supreme Court where the case was addressed as Hansberry v. Lee.

Breaking her family’s tradition of enrolling in Southern Black colleges, Hansberry took admission in the University of Wisconsin in Madison, changing her major from painting to writing. However, Hansberry only attended university for two years before dropping out and moving to New York City where she went to the New School for Social Research.

While working as a part-time waitress and cashier, Hansberry worked as the writer and associate editor of the black newspaper, Freedom, from 1950 to 1953 under Paul Robeson. Three years later, Hansberry devoted all her attention towards writing joining the Daughters of Bilitis the year after. For their magazine, the Ladder, Hansberry contributed articles which talked of feminism and homophobia, revealing her homosexual nature. However, the writer adopted the initials of L.H. in order to avoid discrimination.

Hansberry wrote her first play, The Crystal Stair, during the same period, based on a struggling family in Chicago. The play was later renamed A Raisin in the Sun and was a great success at the Ethel Ballymore Theatre, having a total of 530 performances. The play was the first one to be produced on Broadway by an African-American woman and won an award at the Cannes Film Festival when its motion picture came out. The production also led Hansberry to become the first black playwright and the youngest American to win a New York Critics’ Circle Award.

Lorraine Hansberry became involved in the Civil Rights Movement in 1963 and joined people like Lena Horne and James Baldwin to test Robert Kennedy’s position on civil rights. In the same year, her second play, The Sign in

Shortly after the death of Martin Luther King, The Last Poets were born. David Nelson, Gylan Kain, and Abiodun Oyewole, were born on the anniversary of Malcolm Xs birthday, May 19, 1968 in Marcus Garvey Park. They grew from three poets and a drummer to seven young black and Hispanic artists: David Nelson, Gylan Kain, Abiodun Oyewole, Felipe Luciano, Umar Bin Hassan, Jalal Nurridin, and Suliamn El Hadi (Gil Scott Heron was never a member of the group). They took their name from a poem by South African poet Willie Kgositsile, who posited the necessity of putting aside poetry in the face of looming revolution.When the moment hatches in times womb there will be no art talk, he wrote. The only poem you will hear will be the spearpoint pivoted in the punctured marrow of the villain....Therefore we are the last poets of the world.

Lorraine Hansberry , (born May 19, 1930, Chicago, Illinois, U.

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born on this day.

Birth date of playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who was born in Chicago. Her only two plays, A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Bursteins Window, became famous.

Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield.