This Week in Black History
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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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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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