This Week in Black History
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This week in Black History, June 5, 1973
Former Compton schoolteacher Doris A. Davis, who had been elected the city’s first Black city clerk, defeats incumbent Mayor Douglas…
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This Week in Black History, May 29, 1973
Despite a sometime hostile and racially tinged campaign, former Los Angeles City Councilman Tom Bradley, the grandson of a former…
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This Week in Black History, May 22, 2002
A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist…
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This Week in Black History, May 14, 1991
Winnie Mandela is sentenced to six years in prison in South Africa for her involvement in the kidnapping and beating…
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This Week in Black History, May 10, 1994
After more than 27 years as a political prisoner, Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as the first democratically elected president of…
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This week in Black History
Pioneering journalist Bob Maynard buys the Oakland Tribune, becoming the nation’s first Black owner of a metropolitan newspaper. That accomplishment,…
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This Week in Black History, April 25, 1944
Frederick Douglass Patterson, the president of Tuskegee Institute, with Mary McLeod Bethune and others, incorporates the United Negro College Fund…
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This Week in Black History, April 21, 1974
Former Los Angeles resident Lee Elder birdies three of his last four holes before sinking an 18-foot birdie putt in…
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This Week in Black History, April 9, 1939
African-American singer Marian Anderson performs on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. before an integrated crowd estimated at…
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This Week in Black History, April 4, 1968
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a leader of the American civil rights movement, is assassinated by James Earl Ray…
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