This Week In Black History – June 6, 2025
June 5, 1987 – Dr. Mae C. Jemison became the first black female 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 in Poetry (in 1950), was born.
June 8, 1953 – Supreme Court ruling banned discrimination in Washington, DC restaurants.
June 9, 1995 – Lincoln J. Ragsdale, pioneer fighter pilot during World War II, dies.
June 10, 1854 – James Augustine Healy, was ordained as the first African American Bishop in the Roman Catholic Church.
June 11, 1912 – Joseph H. Dickson patented the player piano.