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On May 7, 1976, William H. Hastie was inaugurated as the first Black governor of the Virgin Islands. He was nominated judge of the Third United States Circuit Court of Appeals by President Harry S. Truman. It was the highest judicial position attained by an African American.
On May 12, 1967, H “Rap” Brown replaced Stokely Carmichael as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. As SNCC’s new chair, Brown was...
On May 9, 1994, Kimberly Clarice Aiken Cockerham was recognized by People Magazine as one of the “Fifty Most Beautiful People in the World.”...
On May 8, 2009 Ronald Cordell Sims became the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sims, now second-in-command of...
The new markers downtown are the latest step in an effort to raise awareness of racial violence in Dallas.
