This Week in Black History
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This Week in Black History
Aug. 30, 1967 The U.S. Senate confirms the appointment by President Lyndon Johnson of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme…
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This Week in Black History
August 24, 1950 Chicago attorney and social worker Edith Sampson is named the first Black person to be appointed a…
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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…
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This Week in Black History
Alabama native James Cleveland Owens, later nicknamed “Jesse,” won his fourth gold medals in track and field at the Olympic…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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, to win…
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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.…
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