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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 June 6, 1987, Mae C. Jemison, M.D., was chosen by NASA to begin training as a space shuttle astronaut.
On June 5, 1973, Cardiss R. Collins of Chicago was elected to Congress. She succeeded her late husband.
On June 4, 1972, Angela Davis was acquitted by a white jury in San Jose, Calif., of charges stemming from a 1970 courtroom shoot-out.
On June 2, 1975 James A Healy, the first Black Roman Catholic bishop, was consecrated in a cathedral in Portland, Maine.
