Barack Obama is elected as the first African American President of the United States (November 4th, 2008)

Barack Obama is elected as the 44th president of the United States.

John Oliver Killens, writer born (1916 - 1987)

Pulitzer Prize nominatinated novelist, John Oliver...

Hattie McDaniel becomes First Black Academy Award Winner (1939)

Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African-American...

Carl Weathers, Actor (1948)

Actor Carl Weathers best known or his role as...

First African American Fortune 500 CEO born (1949)

Franklin Delano Raines the former CEO of Fannie...

Thurgood Marshall becomes the First African-American appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States (1972)

President Johnson appoints Thurgood Marshall as...