Category: This Week in Black History

August, 19, 1958 Clara Luper, an Oklahoma City school teacher and director of the local NAACP Youth Council, organized a sit-in protest with her high […]

The Rev. Jesse Jackson and his two nonprofit organizations, People United to Save Humanity and the National Rainbow Coalition, launched a national boycott against organizations […]

Aug. 4, 1992 A federal grand jury indicts four Los Angeles police officers involved in the beating of Rodney King for violating King’s civil rights. […]

July 23, 1967 The Detroit Race Riot began after police raided an unlicensed after-hours bar, becoming one of the most violent urban revolts in the […]

July 14, 1943 The George Washington Carver National Monument opens in Diamond, Missouri, becoming the first United States National Monument to honor an African American. – For more information […]

July 8, 2000 Venus Williams defeats defending champion Lindsay Davenport to win her first Wimbledon women’s singles title. The Compton native successfully defended her title […]

July 1, 1991 Georgia-born attorney Clarence Thomas is nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace Thurgood Marshall, the high court’s first Black justice. Despite […]

June 22, 1990 Nelson Mandela speaks to the United Nations Special Committee in New York against apartheid, saying nothing has occurred in South Africa to […]