This Week In Black History – June 8, 2023
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, DC 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, MS.
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.