This Week in Black History

This Week in Black History (December 3)

December 3   1982- Thomas “Hit Man” Hearns won the WBC Junior Middleweight title. He was the first Black boxer to win titles in five different weight classes. December 4   1969- Ebony Magazine’s Moneta Sleet Jr. won a Pulitzer Prize for photography for his picture “Deep Sorrow”. Sleet captured the image of Coretta Scott King and her daughter at the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King. December 5 1955- Historic bus boycott began in Montgomery, Alabama, at a mass meeting in the Holt Street Baptist Church. It all started when Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat to a

This Week in Black History (August 27)

  August 27    1963- W.E.B. Du Bois, scholar and founder of NAACP, died in Accra, Ghana. August 28 1955- 14 year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and lynched in Money, Mississippi, for allegedly whistling at a white female at a local grocery shop. August 29 1962- Malvin R. Goode becomes the first African American television news commentator when he began working at ABC. August 30 1983- Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first African American US astronaut enters. August 31 1935- In Beaumont, Texas, American professional baseball player and manager Frank Robinson was born. He was the first

This Week in Black History (August 20)

August 20 1942- Composer, songwriter, musician and singer Isaac Hayes was born in Covington, Tennessee. August 21 1943- Harriet M. West became the first Black woman major in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC). August 22 1989- Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton was gunned down by a member of the Black Guerrilla Family drug ring in Oakland, California. August 23 1954- Computer scientist, geologist and engineer Philip Emeagwali was born in Akure, Nigeria. August 24 1950- Chicago attorney Edith Sampson was named the first Black representative in the U.S. delegation to the United Nations. August 25 1925- The Brotherhood

This Week in Black History (July 2)

(July 2) 2001- Robert Tools became the first recipient in the world to receive an AbioCor, a self contained artificial heart, at Saint Thomas hospital in Louisville, Kentucky.