MISGUIDED MAGAZINE SPRING 2020

July 22, 1939
Mar. 9, 1941
Dec. 22, 1943
Dec. 13, 1944
June 21, 1945
Apr. 10, 1947
Jan. 12, 1948
July 12, 1949
Dec. 10, 1950
May 17, 1954
Sept. 7, 1954
Oct. 27, 1954
Dec. 5, 1955
Oct. 3, 1956
Sept. 24, 1957
Feb. 1, 1960
May 4, 1961
Aug. 5, 1962
Sept. 30, 1962
June 12, 1963
Aug. 28, 1963
Jane M. Bolin from New York City, appointed first African American
female judge.
Amistad defendants freed by U.S. Supreme Court.
W.E.B. DuBois, first African American elected to National Institute of Arts &
Letters.
First African American servicewomen sworn into the WAVES.
Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes first African American to command U.S.
Army Corps base.
Jackie Robinson first African American to play baseball in major leagues.
Supreme Court rules African Americans have right to study law at state
institutions.
Frederick M. Jones patents air conditioning unit used in food transportation
vehicles.
Dr. Ralph J. Bunche becomes the first Black to be awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize.
U. S. Supreme Court declares segregation in public schools unconstitutional
in Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, MD public schools integrated.
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes first African American general in the U.S. Air
Force.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. organizes Birmingham bus boycott.
Nat King Cole becomes first Black performer to host his own TV show.
Federal troops enforce court-ordered integration as nine children, who
become known as the Little Rock Nine, integrate Central High School in
Little Rock, AR.
Four students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in
Greensboro, N.C., begin a sit-in at Woolworth's Drug Store.
Freedom Riders begin protesting segregation of interstate bus travel in the
South.
Nelson Mandella, South African freedom fighter, imprisoned. He was not
released until 1990.
Under protection of federal marshalls, James Meredith enrolls as the first
African American student at University of Mississippi.
Medgar W. Evers, civil rights leader, is assassinated in Jackson, MS.
The March on Washington becomes the largest civil rights demonstration
in U.S. history. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers famous “I Have A Dream”
speech.
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