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On June 17, 1923, Marcus Garvey was convicted on federal charges of mail fraud in connection with the sale of stock in the Universal Negro Improvement Association’s Black Star Line. Sentenced to prison, Garvey delivered his last address before a crowd at Liberty Hall in New York City
On July 4, 1991, the National Civil Rights Museum officially opened at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., the site of the assassination of...
On July 3, 1962 The first Black baseball player in the major leagues was Jackie Robinson. Named to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
On July 2, 2001 Robert Tools became the first recipient in the world of the Abiocor, a self-contained artificial heart, at Jewish Hospital in...
On July 1, 1976, Kenneth Gibson, mayor of Newark, became the first Black president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
