This Week in Black History
October 2, 1967 U.S. Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall — whose brilliant legal work led to the Brown vs. Board of…
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…
September 12, 1992 Chicago physician Dr. Mae Jemison becomes the first African-American woman in space when the space shuttle Endeavour…
Sept. 5, 1960 A young boxer named Cassius Clay won the gold medal in the light heavyweight division in the…
August 30, 1967 The U.S. Senate confirms the appointment of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court by President…
Aug. 18, 1963 Less than a year after he became the first African American to enroll in the University of…
August 16, 1963 Television and advertising executive George Olden becomes the first Black person to design a U.S. postage stamp…
August 9, 1936 Alabama native James Cleveland Owens, later nicknamed “Jesse,” wins four gold medals in track and field at…
July 31, 1981 Chicago-based attorney Arnette Rhinehart Hubbard is installed as the first woman president of the National Bar Association….