July 20: The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps was formed and included 40 African American women, 1942
July 20: The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps was formed and included 40 African American women, 1942
July 20: The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps was formed and included 40 African American women, 1942
June 29: Otis M. Smith the first African American justice on the Michigan Supreme Court passed away, 1994
June 18: Robert Church, the first African American millionaire in South, was born in Holly Springs, MS, 2839
June 14: The famous 125th St. (at Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.) in Harlem, NY was co-named Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan Way, 2019
May 17: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ruled that public education can not be segregated on the basis of race, 1954
May 16: Dr. William Barnes became the first African American Board Certified specialist, 1927
April 6: Thurgood Marshall represented Ada Lois Sipuel in a case that would end segregation in graduate schools across the country, 1946
April 4: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN, 1968
March 30: Captain Edward Dwight, Jr. was selected as the first African American candidate to train as an astronaut, 1963