Shirley Chisholm, a New York Democrat, is the 1st African American woman elected to Congress.

On this date in 1986, The governor of Arizona refuses to recognize Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday as a national holiday.

On this date in 1974, George Brown was elected Lt Governor of Colorado, becoming one of the first two Black Lt Governors in the USA.

ON this date in 1974, Harold Ford of Memphis elected to House of Representatives.

On this date in 1974, Spingarn Medal awarded Damon J. Keith “in tribute to his steadfast defense of constitutional principles as revealed in a series of memorable decisions he handed down as a United States District Court judge.”

On this date in 1974, State Sen. Mervyn M. Dymally elected lieutenant governor of California. State Sen. Georgia L. Brown elected lieutenant governor of Colorado.

On this date in 1974, Walter E. Washington, became the first elected mayor of Washington, D.C., in the twentieth century.

On this date in 1970, National Guard mobilized in Henderson, N.C., due to riots.

On this date in 1968, Shirley Chisholm becomes first Black woman to be elected to Congress, representing Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NYC.

On this date in 1968, a record number of Black congressmen and the first Black woman representative were elected to Congress. The nine Black congressmen and Sen. Edward W. Brooke topped the previous high of eight in the Forty-fourth Congress of 1875-77. The first Black woman representative, Shirley Chisholm of the Bedford-Stuyvesant