today in black history

October 02, 2025

Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first Black to serve on the United States Supreme Court in 1967.

It's Nation Time!

POSTED: March 29, 2012, 12:00 am

  • POST
    • Add to Mixx!
  • SEND TO FRIEND
  • Text Size
  • TEXT SIZE
  • CLEARPRINT
  • PDF

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the historic 1972 Gary, Indiana national Black political convention that set the stage for the presidential campaigns of Shirley Chisholm, Rev. Jesse Jackson and the eventual election of Barack Obama to the presidency.





Related References