October 3, 1956 – Nat “King” Cole became the first black performer to host his own TV show.
October 4, 1864 – First black daily newspaper, The New Orleans Tribune, was founded.
October 5, 1872 – Booker T. Washington entered Hampton Institute, VA.
October 6, 1917 – Political activist Fannie Lou Hamer was born.
October 7, 1934 – Playwright-poet Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), author of Blues People: Negro Music in White America and The Motion of History, was born.
October 8, 1941 – Rev. Jesse L. Jackson was born in Greenville, SC.
October 9, 1888 – O.B. Clare patented the rail trestle.
