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History 107 #2
Created by
Marcus Jarvis
⟶ Updated 29 Oct 2019 ⟶
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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