Alabama native James Cleveland Owens, later nicknamed “Jesse,” won his fourth gold medals in track and field at the Olympic Gamess in Berlin, shattering Adolf […]
Category: This Week in Black History
This Week in Black History
August 5, 1892 Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman gets a pension from Congress for her work as a nurse, scout and spy during the Civil […]
This Week In Black History
July 31, 1981 Chicago-based attorney Arnette Rhinehart Hubbard is installed as the first female president of the National Bar Association. – For more information on […]
This Week in Black History
July 21, 1959 Elijah Jerry “Pumpsie” Green becomes the first African American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last Major League Baseball team to […]
This Week in Black History
The George Washington Carver National Monument opens in Diamond, Missouri, becoming the first U.S. National Monument in honor of an African American.
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 Slam singles […]
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 was designed to […]
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 Administration, becoming the […]
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 schools — was […]
This Week in Black History – June 11, 1959
Charlie Sifford became the first African American to play in the U.S. Open Golf Tournament at the Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York, a suburb northeast […]