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August 7, 1954, Charles H. Mahoney was confirmed by the Senate and became the first Black to serve as a full delegate to the...
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On October 25, 1940 Benjamin O. Davis became the first Black general in the U.S. Army.
On October 20, 1946 W.E.B. Du Bois, at 78, delivered the address at the closing session of the Southern Youth Legislature in Columbia, South...
On October 19, 1944 The US Navy announced that Black women would be permitted to join Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES). The...
August 7, 1954, Charles H. Mahoney was confirmed by the Senate and became the first Black to serve as a full delegate to the...
On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Bill, which authorized the suspension of literacy tests and the sending of federal...
On August 5, 1984, Evelyn Ashford won a gold medal in the 100-meter race, and Edwin Moses won a gold medal in the 400-meter...
On August 4, 1865, the Loyal Creek Council formally declared that African Creeks would be considered full citizens of the Creek Nation. August 4th...
On August 3. 1928, the Atlanta Daily World was founded by William A. Scott III. The Atlanta Daily World was the first Black daily...
On August 2, 1982 Jackie Robinson is honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a commemorative stamp, the fifth in its Black Heritage USA...
On August 1, 1993, Barbara Ross-Lee, a practicing family physician, Naval officer, and medical educator, assumed the position of dean of Ohio University College...
On July 31, 1966, Stokely Carmichael, the newly appointed Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), described Black power to a mostly African...
On July 26, 1919 Troops were mobilized to put down the Chicago riot, which erupted on July 27 and continued for several days. Fifteen...
On July 4, 1991, the National Civil Rights Museum officially opened at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., the site of the assassination of...
