Black History Month Facts
Ruby Bridges was the first African American to enter an all-white school when the New Orleans public school system was ordered to desegregate in 1960.
Ruby Bridges was the first African American to enter an all-white school when the New Orleans public school system was ordered to desegregate in 1960.
Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American justice on the supreme court of the United States.
Carter G. Woodson was the second African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard University. He founded what we now refer to as Black History Month.
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion will be hosting a Safe Zone Booster Session on Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at 3:00p.m. in CMU 208. We will be discussing pronoun choices other than “she, her, he, him,” or in other words, pronouns that are “non-traditional.” You do not need to be Safe Zone certified to attend the booster session. If you […]
Daniel Hale Williams was the first person to successfully perform open heart surgery. He was one of the first African American surgeons in America.