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Hattie McDaniel
(June 10, 1895 – October 26, 1952) was an American actress. McDaniel was the first African-American to win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939). -
Dr.Charles Drew becomes 1st African American surgeon
(3 June 1904 – 1 April 1950) was an African-American physician, surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II. This allowed medics to save thousands of lives of the Allied forces.As the most prominent African-American in the field, Drew protested against the practice of racial segregation in the donation of blood, as i -
CORE:Sends 16 men on the journey reconcillation
CORE(COngress of Racial Equailty) On April 10, 1947, CORE sent a group of eight white (including James Peck, their publicity officer) and eight black men on what was to be a two-week Journey of Reconciliation through Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky in an effort to end segregation in interstate travel. The members of this group were arrested and jailed several times, but they received a great deal of publicity, and this marked the beginning of a long series of similar campaigns. -
Brown V. Board of Education-US Supreme Court-outlaws racial's in schools
a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." As a result, de jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This ruling paved the way for integration and wa -
Four black students being sit-ins at lunch counters in greensboro
On February 1, 1960, four students from the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth's store at 132 South Elm Street in Greensboro, North Carolina.[1] The men, later known as the Greensboro Four, ordered coffee.[5] Following store policy, the lunch counter staff refused to serve the African American men at the "whites only" counter and the store's manager asked them to leave.July 25, 1960. The next day, the entire Woolworth's chain.
