This Week In Black History
July 31, 1981 Chicago-based attorney Arnette Rhinehart Hubbard is installed as the first female president of the National Bar Association….
July 31, 1981 Chicago-based attorney Arnette Rhinehart Hubbard is installed as the first female president of the National Bar Association….
July 21, 1959 Elijah Jerry “Pumpsie” Green becomes the first African American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last…
The George Washington Carver National Monument opens in Diamond, Missouri, becoming the first U.S. National Monument in honor of an African American.
July 6, 2002 Former Compton resident Serena Williams wins her first Wimbledon tennis tournament, defeating her sister Venus, to win…
Malcolm X announces the establishment of the Organization of African Unity at a public meeting in New York’s Audubon Ballroom….
Bethune-Cookman College President Mary McLeod Bethune, the 15th child of former slaves, is named director of negro affairs for the…
Former NAACP chief counsel Thurgood Marshall — who led the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education case that outlawed segregation…
Charlie Sifford became the first African American to play in the U.S. Open Golf Tournament at the Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck,…
Post to Features and This Week in Black History with photo BLACK 053024 Former Compton schoolteacher Doris A. Davis, who…
Ernest Green, who joined eight Black classmates in challenging racial segregation in public schools, becomes the first member of the…