This Week in Black History
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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. – For more…
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This Week in Black History, July 23, 1962
Jackie Robinson, the first Black player to play Major League Baseball in the modern era, becomes the first Black player…
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This Week in Black History, July 18, 1863
The 54th Massachusetts volunteer army, composed of free black men, makes its famous charge on Fort Wagner in Charleston, S.C.…
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This Week in Black History, July 10, 1966
An estimated 60,000 people, led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., attend the Chicago Freedom Movement rally. The Chicago…
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This Week in Black History, July 6, 2002
Former Compton resident Serena Williams wins her first Wimbledon tennis tournament, defeating her sister Venus, to win her first Grand…
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This Week in Black History, June 28, 1964
Malcolm X announces the establishment of the Organization of African Unity at a public meeting in New York’s Audubon Ballroom.…
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This Week in Black History, June 18, 1991
Wellington Webb is elected the first African-American mayor of the city of Denver. He served as mayor for 12 years.…
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This Week in Black History, June 12, 1963
Post to This Week In Black History with Photo BLACK 061126 NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in…
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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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