Events in Black History PAPE By Ribbons23 1849 Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman Dec 6, 1865 All Slavery was Abolished Jun 15, 1921 Bessie Coleman Receives Her Pilot's License in France 1936 Jesse Owens Wins Four Gold Medals at Berlin Olympics Apr 15, 1947 Breaking the Color Line in Baseball (Jackie Robinson) 1955 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott Sep 11, 1960 First African American and American Woman to Win 3 Gold Medals in a singly Olympics (Wilma Rudolph) Aug 28, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers "I Have a Dream" in Washington, D.C. Aug 6, 1965 Voting Rights Act 1967 Loving versus Virginia Band restrictions based in race in marriage Apr 4, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated Sep 17, 1983 First African-American Miss America (Vanessa Williams) Sep 12, 1992 First Female African-American Astronaut in Space (Mae Jemison) 2002 Only Black Woman to Win Best Actress Oscar (Halle Berry) Feb 27, 2003 Oprah Winfrey Becomes First African American Female Billionaire Nov 5, 2008 Obama Election
