TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY: October 6
First Legal Interracial Marriage in North Carolina (1971).
Activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, born (1917).
W.D. Davis patented an improved riding saddle (1895).
Fisk Jubilee Singers began first national tour (1971).
Black state convention at Macon, Georgia, protested expulsion of Black politicians from Georgia legislature (1868).
National Black Convention met in Troy, New York with more than sixty delegates from nine states (1847).
Take a look at some more moments in Black History below:
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