June 1, 1968 - Henry Lewis becomes first
Black musical director of an
American symphony orchestra - the New Jersey
Symphony
June 2, 1971 - Samuel L. Gravely, Jr.
becomes first African American
admiral in U.S. Navy.
June 3, 1890 - L.H. Jones patents corn
harvester.
June 4, 1972 - Angela Davis acquitted of all
murder and conspiracy
charges.
June 5, 1987 - Dr. Mae C. Jemison becomes
first Black woman astronaut.
June 6, 1831 - First annual "People of
Color" convention held in
Philadelphia.
June 7, 1917 - Poetess Gwendolyn Brooks,
first African American to
win the Pulitzer Prize (Poetry 1950), born.
June 8, 1953 - Supreme Court ruling bans
discrimination in
Washington, D.C. restaurants.
June 9, 1995 - Lincoln J. Ragsdale, pioneer
fighter pilot of World
War II, dies.
June 10, 1854 - James Augustine Healy, first
African American Roman
Catholic bishop is ordained.
June 11, 1912 - Joseph H. Dickson patents
player piano.
June 12, 1963 - Medgar W. Evers, civil
rights leader, is assassinated
in Jackson, Miss.
June 13, 1967 - Thurgood Marshall nominated
to the U.S. Supreme Court
by President Lyndon Johnson.
June 14, 1864 - Congress rules that African
American soldiers must
receive equal pay.
June 15, 1913 - Dr. Effie O'Neal, first
Black woman to hold an
executive position in the American Medical
Association, born.
June 16, 1970 - Kenneth A. Gibson elected
mayor of Newark, N.J.,
first African American mayor of a major
eastern U.S. city.
June 17. 1775 - Minuteman Peter Salem fights
in the Battle of Bunker
Hill.
June 18, 1863 - The 54th Massachusetts
Colored Infantry attacks Fort
Wagner, S.C.
June 19, 1865 - Black in Texas are notified
of Emancipation
Proclamation, issued in 1863. "Juneteenth,"
marks the event.
June 20, 1953 - Albert W. Dent of Dillard
Universality elected
president of the National Health Council.
June 21, 1945 - Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
becomes first African
American to command a U.S. Army Air Corps
base.
June 22, 1897 - William Barry patents the
postmarking and canceling.
June 23, 1940 - Sprinter Wilma Rudolph,
winner of three gold medals
at the 1960 Summer Olympics, born.
June 24, 1964 - Carl T. Rowan appointed the
Director of the United
States Information Agency.
June 25, 1941 - Franklin D. Roosevelt issues
executive order
establishing Fair Employment Practice
Commission.
June 26, 1975 - Samuel Blanton Rosser
becomes first African American
certified in pediatric surgery.
June 27, 1991 - Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall announces his
retirement.
June 28, 1864 - Fugitive slave laws repealed
by Congress.
June 29 1886 - Photographer James Van Der
Zee born.
June 30, 1921 - Charles S. Gilping awarded
Springarm Medal for his
performance in Eugene O'Neill Emperor Jones.
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