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Nominated by President Johnson, and confirmed by the Senate, Thurgood Marshall becomes the nation's first black associate justice of the Supreme Court.
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1967 |
Muhammad Ali is stripped of his heavyweight title for refusing to be drafted.
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1967 |
Martin Luther King Jr. announces his opposition to the Vietnam War, alienating some of his strongest supporters in government, including President Johnson.
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1967 |
Major Robert Lawrence becomes the second African American astronaut. |
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1967 |
Kathleen Cleaver becomes communications secretary for the Black Panther Party.
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1967 |
In a unanimous vote, the U.S. Supreme Court rules in Loving v. Virginia that the state's antimiscegenation law is unconstitutional, nullifying all remaining similar laws in fifteen other states.
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1967 |
Carl Stokes of Cleveland, Ohio, becomes the first black mayor of a major American city.
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1967 |
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. is expelled from the House of Representatives for alleged improprieties; he wins a special election to fill his own seat and returns to the House two years later. He is eventually defeated by Charles Rangel in 1970.
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1967 |
Renee Powell is the first black woman to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour.
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1967 |
Aretha Franklin signs with Atlantic Records and releases I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Loved You).
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1967 |
Nannie Mitchell Turner receives the Distinguished Editor Award from the National Newspaper Publishers Association.
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1967 |
Helen Natalie Jackson Claytor becomes the first African American to serve as national president of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA).
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1967 |
The Urban Arts Corps, an inner-city theater program to showcase performers of color, is founded in New York City by Vinnette Carroll, who serves as its artistic director. |
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1967 |
The founding convention of the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) is held, with Johnnie Tillmon as chair, Etta Horn as first vice chair, Beulah Saunders as second vice chair, Edith Doering as secretary, and Marian Kidd as treasurer.
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1967 |
Jesse Jackson is appointed national director of Operation Breadbasket in the hope that his leadership will increase employment and promote entrepreneurship among blacks.
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1967 |
Albert William Johnson is awarded the first dealership from a major automaker to an African American. He opens his Oldsmobile dealership in a predominantly African American neighborhood in Chicago. |
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1967 |
Bill Russell is the first black NBA coach when he becomes player-coach of the Boston Celtics, and leads team to NBA championships in 1968 and 1969.
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1967 |
Orlando Cepeda, the St. Louis Cardinals first baseman, unanimously wins the National League Most Valuable Player award.
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1967 |
The black Latino Rod Carew is named the American League Rookie of the Year
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1967 |
The pitcher Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals is chosen as the World Series Most Valuable Player.
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1967 |
Winston-Salem State becomes the first HBCU to win an NCAA title in basketball, the Division II championship. |
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Biafra attempts to secede from Nigeria; Swaziland becomes independent; Muammar al-Qaddafi seizes power in Libya.
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1968 |
Arthur Ashe wins his first U.S. Open in tennis and leads the U.S. Davis Cup team to an international victory.
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1968 |
The attorney Marian Wright Edelman is the congressional and federal agency liaison for the Poor Peoples' Campaign, which brings an estimated 50,000 demonstrators to Washington, D.C.
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1968 |
Record numbers of African American congressmen (and the first black congresswoman, Shirley Chisholm from New York's Twelfth Congressional District) are elected.
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1968 |
Kerner Commission warns that America is becoming “two societies—one black, one white—separate and unequal.”
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1968 |
Despite their outstanding performances in the 200-meter sprint, John Carlos and teammate Tommie Smith are stripped of their medals and ejected from the Olympic Village for raising their gloved hands in the Black Power salute while the national anthem plays.
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1968 |
Harold Hunter becomes the first black to serve as a coach (though not the head coach) of a U.S. Olympic basketball team. Hunter had been the first black to sign with an NBA team in 1950, but was cut from the team before the season. Though five blacks (including the future NBA star Jo Jo White) play on the team, a significant number of black college and future NBA stars boycott the games to protest racism in the United States, including Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), Elvin Hayes, Bob Lanier and Wes Unseld.
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1968 |
Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, is tried and convicted of the shooting death of a white policeman; several months later, three members of the Black Panthers are arrested and charged with carrying out a machine-gun attack on a police station in Jersey City.
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1968 |
Clothhilde Dent Brown becomes the first African American woman to be promoted to the rank of colonel in the U.S. Army.
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