History 107 #2 - Timeline

Tuskegee Airmen is established in the army

National Negro Opera Company is established in Pittsburgh by opera singer Mary Lucinda Caldwell Dawson

Charity Adams Earley is the first African- American woman commissioned officer in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps

Largest concentration of African American military personnel is stationed at Fort Huachuca in Arizona.

The United Negro College Fund is established by Fredrick Douglass Patterson

First Ebony Magazine is published, by John H. Johnson

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that segregation on interstate bus travel is unconstitutional in Morgan v. Virginia

Jackie Robinson becomes the first black major league baseball player

President Truman desegregates armed forces

Jesse Blayton Sr. launches WERD-AM, first black owned radio station in the United States

G.I. bill is signed into law

First atomic bomb is, the Trinity Test, is exploded at Alamogordo, New Mexico

NBA is founded

The Brinks robbery in Boston occurs when 11 masked bandits steal $2.8 million from an armored car outside their express office.

President Roosevelt dies suddenly