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On May 17, 2004, the NAACP staged a gala celebration at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Comedian, actor, and philanthropist Bill Cosby was asked to deliver the main address. Cosby unexpectedly used the occasion to deliver a controversial speech that profiled current African American social, economic, and cultural deficiencies.
On May 16, 1966 Stokely Carmichael was named chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The National Welfare Rights Organization was organized.
On May 15, 1946, Camilla Williams, the African American woman to sign a contract with a major American opera company, appeared in the title...
On May 14, 1994, Colin Powell, the first African American Secretary of State in 2001 under President George W. Bush, had his most important...
On May 13, 1969, in Fayette, Mississippi, James Charles Evers was elected the first black mayor of a racially mixed Mississippi town. In June...
