1937- Louis Armstrong became the first African-American entertainer to host a nationally sponsored radio show
May 1941- Tuskegee Airmen unit formed in Tuskegee, Alabama.
1947- Jackie Robinson signs with Brooklyn Dodgers
1955- Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat in the front of the colored section to a white person
1962- James Meredith is the first black person to enroll in University of Mississippi