Brown vs. Board of Education
On May 17, 1954, the US Supreme Court ordered the desegregation of schools as a result of the case of Brown vs. Board of Education.
On May 17, 1954, the US Supreme Court ordered the desegregation of schools as a result of the case of Brown vs. Board of Education.
Singer Marian Anderson was born on February 27, 1897, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
On February 1, 1978, the USPS issued the first stamp in its now longest-running series, Black Heritage.
Botanist and inventor George Washington Carver died on January 5, 1943, in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Businesswoman Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C.J. Walker, was born on December 23, 1867, in Delta, Louisiana.
U.S. sailor and Pearl Harbor hero Dorie Miller died on November 24, 1943, during the Battle of Makin.
On October 14, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. became the youngest person ever nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Civil rights leader Whitney Moore Young, Jr., was born on July 31, 1921, in Shelby County, Kentucky.
Poet, author, and teacher Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas.