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.


Road to Freedom

One of the most significant exhibitions devoted to photography of the Civil Rights Movement will be presented by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The exhibition, “Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968” will open Nov. 8 at the S. Dillon Ripley Center International Gallery on the National Mall in Washington, DC.  It will be accompanied by an exhibition of contemporary art titled “After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy” Read More