This Week in Black History
December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her…
December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her…
November 16, 1901 Black education pioneer Booker T. Washington and his wife are invited to dinner at the White House…
November 5, 1918 Frederick Madison Roberts, the great grandson of Sally Hemings (the Thomas Jefferson slave who bore six of…
October 31, 1950 Earl Lloyd becomes the first black player in the NBA, taking the court for the Washington Capitals….
October 24, 1935 Langston Hughes’ play “Mulatto” opened in New York, becoming the first black-authored play to become a long-running…
October 16, 1968 San Jose State track stars Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised gloved fists during a medal ceremony…
October 9, 1975 All-star outfielder Frank Robinson – whose later years were spent with the Los Angeles Dodgers and California…
October 2, 1967 U.S. Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall – whose brilliant legal work led to the Brown vs. Board of…
September 27, 1950 Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first African-American writer to win a Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry,…
Sept. 20, 1847 William Leidesdorff is elected to the San Francisco Town Council, becoming one of California’s first black elected…