This Week In Black History – June 12, 2025
June 12, 1963 – Medgar W. Evers, civil rights leader, was assassinated in Jackson, MS.
June 13, 1967 – Thurgood Marshall nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
June 14, 1864 – Congress ruled 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, was born.
June 16, 1970 – Kenneth A. Gibson was elected mayor of Newark, NJ, first African American mayor of a major eastern US city.
June 17, 1775 – Minuteman Peter Salem fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
June 18, 1863 – The 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry attacked Fort Wagner, SC.