Bryant Gumble resigns after 15 years as host of NBC’s Today Show
On this date in 1989, The Arsenio Hall Show premieres. It is the first regularly scheduled nightly talk show to star an African American.
On this date in 1984, Rev. Jesse Jackson secures the release of pilot Lt. Robert Goodman, shot down over Damascus.
On this date in 1969, Louis Stokes is sworn in as the first African American congressman from the state of Ohio. He will serve more than ten terms in Congress.
On this date in 1969, Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. seated by Congress.
On this date in 1966, Floyd B. McKissick, North Carolina attorney, named national director of Congress of Racial Equality.
On this date in 1966, Sammy Younge, Jr., 21, was shot to death by a 67 year old white service station attendant. A Tuskegee Institute student and civil rights activist, Younge was shot after using the “Whites only” restroom at the service station where the white attendant was working.
On this date in 1961, Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee.
On this date in 1947, NAACP report said 1946 was “one of the grimmest years in the history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.” The report deplored “reports of blow torch killing and eye-gouging of Negro veterans freshly returned from a war to end torture and racial extermination”…
On this date in 1947, Congressman William L. Dawson elected chairman of House Expenditures Committee. He was the first Black to head a standing committee of Congress.
On this date in 1947, United States Population: 150,697,361. Black population: 15,042,286 (10 per cent).
On this date in 1621, First African American, William Tucker, born
