
April 24
April 24, 1972 – Robert Wedgeworth was named the first African American Director of the American Library Association.
April 24, 1972 – James M. Roger, Jr. became the first African American named National Teacher of the Year and honored at a White House ceremony.
April 24, 1993 – Oliver Tambo, the South African ANC leader between 1967 and 1991, died.
April 24, 1892 – A white mob lynched an African American man named Henry Grizzard in Nashville, Tennessee, on an allegation of assaulting two White women.