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Tuskegee Airmen is established in the armyNational Negro Opera Company is established in Pittsburgh by opera singer Mary Lucinda Caldwell DawsonCharity Adams Earley is the first African- American woman commissioned officer in the Women's Army Auxiliary CorpsLargest concentration of African American military personnel is stationed at Fort Huachuca in Arizona.The United Negro College Fund is established by Fredrick Douglass PattersonFirst Ebony Magazine is published, by John H. JohnsonThe U.S. Supreme Court rules that segregation on interstate bus travel is unconstitutional in Morgan v. VirginiaJackie Robinson becomes the first black major league baseball playerPresident Truman desegregates armed forcesJesse Blayton Sr. launches WERD-AM, first black owned radio station in the United StatesG.I. bill is signed into lawFirst atomic bomb is, the Trinity Test, is exploded at Alamogordo, New MexicoNBA is foundedThe 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
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