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On June 22, 1949 Ezzard Charles defeated Jersey Joe Walcott for the World heavyweight championship.
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On June 21, 1945 Col. B.O. Davis Jr. was named commander of Godman Field (Ky.) and became the first Black to head an Army...
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On June 19, 1865 The Emancipation Proclamation was proclaimed in Texas. Former slaves began migrating to Austin, Dallas, Galveston, and other Texas cities, but...
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On June 18, 1942 The U.S. Navy commissions its first Black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson.
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On June 10, 1915 Albert Robinson died of an unknown illness. Albert Robinson and his wife, Margaret Tull Robinson, originally ran Hotel Robinson. The...
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On June 9, 1989, Congressman John Conyers, D-Michigan, announced a call for a reparations study.
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On June 8, 1953 Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr., performed the marriage ceremony of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Miss Coretta Scott at...
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On June 6, 1987, Mae C. Jemison, M.D., was chosen by NASA to begin training as a space shuttle astronaut.
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On June 5, 1973, Cardiss R. Collins of Chicago was elected to Congress. She succeeded her late husband.
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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.
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On June 2, 1975 James A Healy, the first Black Roman Catholic bishop, was consecrated in a cathedral in Portland, Maine.
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On June 1, 1909, Ida B. Wells gave a speech at the National Negro Conference, the forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement...
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On May 31, 1921, this was the worst riot in American history. 15,000 Blacks were left homeless, between 300 and 3000 were killed, wounded,...
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On May 30, 1965, Vivian Malone Jones became the first Black student to graduate from the formerly segregated University of Alabama. She was one...
