VI. Black History Month Timeline

Pearl S. Buck receives the Nobel Prize for Violette Neatly Anderson is the first black Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland found the Literature for The Good Earth. woman to practice law before the U.S. Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, now December 10, 1938 known as the Association for the Study of African American Supreme Court. Life and History (ASALH), an organization dedicated to January 29, 1926 encouraging the study and celebration of Black history.

Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white person; her Amelia Earhart makes the first solo arrest sparks the modern civil rights flight from Hawaii to North America. movement in the US.

December 1, 1955

Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman Governor in U.S. history (Governor of Wyoming).

Richard R. Wright, formerly enslaved civil rights January 11, 1935 advocate, and author, begins lobbying for the creation of National Freedom Day, a national holiday celebrating the day the 13th amendment was officially approved on February 1st, 1865. Muriel Siebert becomes the first Marian Anderson is the first African1942 woman to own a seat on the N.Y. Stock American woman to sing at the Exchange. Metropolitan Opera. In the midst of the Civil Rights Movement, colleges and universities across the country December 28, 1967 January 7, 1955 begin celebrating “Negro History Week” throughout the entire month of February.

Several mayors across the country declare the month a municipal holiday as well.

1960s

Wyoming is the first territory to give Fanny Farmer’s first cookbook is Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950), son of formerly women the right to vote. published in which she standardizedenslaved parents attends the University of Chicago

December 10, 1869 cooking measurements.. and Harvard University, where he is the second known Black person to earn a Ph.D. During his Mary McLeod Bethune creates the National January 7, 1896 studies, Woodson discovers the erasure of Black people in academic texts and lessons about Council of Negro Women. American History.

December 5, 1935 1910s

Hattie Wyatt Caraway (D-Arkansas) is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, becomes the first woman to chair a Senate Committee and the first to serve as the Senate’s presiding officer.

January 5, 1925

Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Capt. Annie Fox receives the first Purple African American Life and History introduce “Negro History Week” as a campaign for schools to highlight Black Heart awarded to a woman for her service history in their curriculums. Woodson chose the second while under attack at Pearl Harbor. week of February because it included Abraham Lincoln’s December 7, 1941 birthday, February 12th, and Frederick Douglass’ birthday, February 14th.

1926 January 12, 1932

President’s Commission on the Status of Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) starts President Harry Truman signs a bill Women is established to examine her tenure in the Senate, where she stays establishing National Freedom Day. discrimination against women and ways in office until 1973, became the first to eliminate it. woman to serve in both the House and1948 December 14, 1961 Senate as she previously served in the House (1940-49). Judith Rodin is named president of Univ. January 3, 1949 President Gerald Ford decrees Black of Pennsylvania, the first woman to head History Month to be a national holiday. an Ivy League institution. Pauli Murray is ordained as the first 15December 17, 1993 female African American Episcopal priest. 1976