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1922 Bessle Coleman. the First blackAmerican
female pilot, performs her first air show
in Chicago.
1922 The Great Depression begins.
1933 Lena Home joins the chorus line
of Harlem's famous Cotton Club. This Is
the beginning of
her legendary performing career.
1935 The National Council of Negro Women
is formed. Mary McLeod Bethune is the founder.
1938 Ella Fitzgerald records "A-Tisket,
A-Tasket," and becomes "The First
Lady of Song."
1939 World War II breaks out in Europe.
Over one million African Americans serve,
including
several thousand women. Despite the proven
abilities of African-American troops, the
units are still segregated until the end
of the war.
Actress Hattie McDaniel becomes
the first African American to win an Academy
Award, and
singer Marian Anderson performs on the
steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the request
of
Eleanor Roosevelt. Augusta Savage's famous
sculpture, LiftEvery Voice and Sing, is
unveiled
at the New York World's Fair.
1945 World
War II ends.
1946
Gospel singer MahaUa Jackson records "Move
on Up a Little Higher" and becomes
internationally famous.
1948 Alice Coachman becomes the first
black American woman to win a gold medal
In the high
jump in the Olympic Games.
The racist system of apartheid is formalized
in South Africa.
1950 Althea Gibson breaks new ground when
she plays the U.S. Open tennis competition,
becoming the first African American ever to do so.
Attorney Edith Sampson becomes the first African American to serve as a delegate
to the
United Nations.
For her book of poetry, Annie Alien. Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first African
American
to win a Pulitzer Prize.
1955 In Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, Kansas, the U.S. Supreme Court
reverses the "separate but equal" doctrine
of Plessy v. Ferguson.
1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her
seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man.
The incident
sparks a 381-day bus boycott lead by Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1956 South African singer Miriam Makeba
tours the world, spreading the truth about
apartheid.
As a result, she is exiled from her country.
1957 Despite threats to their lives,
Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine successfuHv
integrate
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1958
Alvin Alley founds the Alvin Alley American
Dance Theater. Judith Jamison joins the
troupe
eight years later, and becomes its artistic
director in 1989 after Alley's death.
1959 Martin Luther King, Jr. organizes
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
with
other black leaders. Activist Ella Baker
plays a major role in its formation: she
later helps
organize the Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee. Educator Septima Clark
sets up Freedom Schools all over the South.
Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
opens on Broadway and wins the New York
Drama Critics Circle Award.
1961 Freedom Rides begin.
Opera singer Leontyne Price makes her
Metropolitan Opera House debut singing
IL Trovatore.
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