In 1935- Boxer Joe Louis becomes the first Black boxer to draw a million dollar gate
In 1957- President Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne to Little Rock, Arkansas — the first federal military protection of civil rights since Reconstruction — so that nine students could attend a public school.
In 1977- John T. Walker installed as the first Black bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Washington
To Inspire You
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness