July 14, 1943 The George Washington Carver National Monument opens in Diamond, Missouri, becoming the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American. – For more information […]
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This Week in Black History
July 9, 1893 Chicago physician Daniel Hale Williams, the nation’s first Black cardiologist, performs the first successful open heart surgery at Provident Hospital, the nation’s […]
This Week in Black History
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 […]
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. The organization […]
This Week in Black History
June 24, 1936 Bethune-Cookman College President Mary McLeod Bethune, the 15th child of former slaves, is named director of Negro Affairs for the National Youth […]
This Week in Black History
June 13, 1967 Former NAACP chief counsel Thurgood Marshall – who led the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education case that outlawed segregation in public […]
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 Dollarhide to […]
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 slave, defeats […]
This Week in Black History
May 19, 1965 Patricia R. Harris is appointed ambassador to Luxembourg by President Lyndon Baines Johnson, becoming the first African-American woman to become a U.S. […]
This Week in Black History
May 17, 1988 Patricia Era Bath, a co-founder of the King-Drew Medical Center Ophthalmology training program, secures a patent for laser technology for the removal […]