This Day in History
On May 26, 1961, the Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee was established in Atlanta.
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On May 24, 1954 Dr. Peter Murray Marshall was installed as president of the New York County Medical Society and became the first Black...
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On May 23, 2011, Raymond Merriwether died in Seattle. He was 87. He was a prominent African American architect, real estate developer, and newspaper...
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On May 22, 1959, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. became the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force. His father was the first...
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On May 21, 1970, the National Guard mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State University. Black and white students were demanding an end to...
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On May 20, 1971, a Pentagon report said Blacks constituted 11 per cent of U.S. soldiers in Southeast Asia. The report said 12.5 per...
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On May 19, 1991, Willy T. Ribbs became the first African American driver to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.
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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....
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On May 16, 1966 Stokely Carmichael was named chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The National Welfare Rights Organization was organized.
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On May 15, 1946, Camilla Williams, the African American woman to sign a contract with a major American opera company, appeared in the title...
