Black History Moment

On August 5, 1914, the first electric traffic lights--invented by Garrett Morgan) are installed at Euclid Ave. and 105th St. in Cleveland, Ohio.

On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, outlawing the literacy test for voting eligibility in the South.

The Oblate Sisters of Baltimore, Maryland were the first sisterhood for African Americans in the history of the Catholic Church.

Berry Gordy Jr. started Motown Records with $800 borrowed from  a family member in 1959. In 1993, he sold the company to Polygram Records for $301 million.
On this day in 1970, Dr. Hugh Scott of Washington, D.C. becomes the first African American superintendent of schools in a major  U.S. city.
"Our progress has  never depended on the President or Congress … it has always depended on the action of black people and the power of God."