Doris A. Davis, of Compton California,  becomes the first African-American woman mayor of a metropolitan city in the United States.

Federal Court Rules that racial segregation on Montgomery City buses violated Constitution.

On this day in 1973, Cardiss R. Collins of Chicago was elected to Congress. She succeeded her late husband.

On this date in 1969, there a Race riot occurred in Hartford, Connecticut.

On this day in 1955, Martin Luther King Jr. is awarded his doctorate from Boston University.

ON this date in 1950, U.S. Supreme Court undermined the legal foundations of segregation in three landmark cases, Sweatt v. Painter, McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents and Henderson v. United States.

On this day 1945, Olympic track and field star John Carlos born in New York City. John Carlos would become famous at the 1968 Olympic Summer Games for raising a black gloved fist during the playing of the American anthem.

On this day in 1940, the American Negro Theater was organized by Frederick O’Neal and Abram Hill.

On this day in 1894, G.W. Murray patents Fertilizer Distributor Patent No. 520,889

On this day in 1894, G.W. Murray patents Cotton Chopper, Patent No. 520,888.

On thus day in 1894, G.W. Murray patents Planter, Patent No. 520,887

On this day in 1872, the Republican National Convention met in Philadelphia with substantial Black representation from Southern States. For the first time in American History, three Blacks addressed a major national political convention: Robert B. Elliot, Chairman of the South Carolina delegation; Joseph H. Rainy, South Carolina delegate; John R. Lynch, Mississippi delegate.

On this day in 1783, Oliver Cromwell, soldier in the Revolutionary War, receives an honorable discharge and the Badge of Merit from George Washington