This Week in Black History
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This Week in Black History
July 23, 1962 Georgia native Jackie Robinson, the first black player to play Major League Baseball in the modern era,…
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This Week in Black History
July 18, 1863 The 54th Massachusetts volunteer army, composed of free black men, charges Fort Wagner in Charleston, S.C. The…
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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…
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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, winning her…
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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…
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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…
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This Week in Black History
June 13, 1967 Former NAACP chief counsel Thurgood Marshall – who led the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education case…
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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…
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This Week in Black History
May 27, 1958 Ernest Green, who joined eight black classmates in challenging racial segregation in public schools, becomes the first…
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This week in Black History
April 30, 1983 Pioneering journalist Bob Maynard buys the Oakland Tribune, becoming the nation’s first black owner of a metro…
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