MISGUIDED MAGAZINE SPRING 2020

Oct. 7, 1993
Oct. 16, 1995
July 9, 2000
Dec. 16, 2000
Dec. 17, 2000
July 3, 2001
2004
Nov. 7, 2006
Nov. 4, 2008
Feb. 2, 2009
June 25, 2009
Nov. 10, 2009
Aug. 22, 2011
Jan. 20, 2013
Toni Morrison becomes the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for
literature.
Million Man March held in Washington, D.C.
Venus Williams becomes the first black woman to win the Women's Singles
title at Wimbledon since Althea Gibson in 1957 and 1958.
President George W. Bush appoints Colin L. Powell as secretary of state.
President George W. Bush appoints Condoleezza Rice as national security
adviser.
Ruth Simmons becomes first black president of an Ivy League university,
Brown University.
Four black men — Kenneth Chenault (American Express), Richard Parsons
(Time Warner), Franklin Raines (Fannie Mae) and E. Stanley O'Neal (Merrill
Lynch) — have become CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.
Deval Patrick is elected first African American governor of Massachusetts.
Barack Hussein Obama elected first African American president of the U.S.
The U.S. Senate confirms, with a vote of 75 to 21, Eric H. Holder Jr. as
attorney general of the United States. Holder is the first African American
to serve as attorney general.
Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop," dies of a drug overdose.
President Obama delivers his acceptance speech in Stockholm, Sweden on
receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington,
D.C. opens to the public, and is officially dedicated on October 16.
Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term as president.
This timeline is not intended to be an all-inclusive listing of all historical events involving
African Americans, but is a compilation of the achievements of many great black Americans
and some of the major events in black American history gathered from various sources.
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