The Democratic National Convention’s Rules Committee approved the nomination of Yvonne Brathwaite Burke as Co-Chairperson of the convention on June 24,1972.
Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win three Olympic Gold Medals in track and field in one year, was born in Clarksville, TN, on June 23,1940.Rudolph accomplished the feat although stricken with polio at an early age.
Eva Beatrice Dykes, the first Black woman to meet requirements for a Phd.D., received a Ph.D. in English from Radcliffe College in Massachusetts on June 22,1921.Dykes,however,received her degree eight days after Georgianna R. Simpson.
Medger Evers,civil rights activist and the NAACP’s first Field Secretary in the state of Mississippi,was assassinated at his Jackson,MS, residence on June 12,1963.
James Augustine Healy was consecrated the first Black Roman Catholic Bishop in the United States on June 2,1875. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS PERSON VISIT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.
Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree),preacher,abolitionst,speaker,and women’s rights advocate,began her journey to help escaped Blacks find housing and work in the North on June 1,1843. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS PERSON VISIT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.
Alexander G. Clark , journalist, lawyer, minister, and Consul – General to Liberia, died in Monrovia, Liberia, on May 31,1891. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alexander G. Clark rose from modest beginnings to become a man of wealth. He balanced his career by mixing interests in real estate, politics, the military, religion, the newspaper media, and law. He fought […]
Countee Cullen poet, was born in Baltimore, MD, May 30, 1903. His first book of poetry was Color. The Lost Zoo is another of his published works. Cullen was a major contributor to the “Harlem Renaissance.” TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS PERSON VISIT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.
Victoria Earle Matthews,writer,educator,noted social worker,and founder of the White Rose Mission in New York ,was born a slave in Ft.Valley,GA,on May 27,1861. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS PERSON VISIT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.
Althea Gibson ,tennis legend ,won the women’s singles championship in the French Open on May 26,1956,becoming the first Black to win a major tennis title. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS PERSON VISIT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.