Earl Ingram Jr.

Black History Facts:

• U.S. Navy 1st Black Officer
  In 1942, the U.S. Navy commissions its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson.
• Wellington Webb is elected mayor
  City Auditor Wellington Webb is elected mayor of Denver, Colo. He is the first African American to hold the post.
• Housing discrimination banned
  Supreme Court banned racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing.
• Samuel Nabrit
  Samuel Nabrit is the first African American to serve on the Atomic Energy Commission
• Black students boycotted Public Schools
  Three thousand Black students boycotted Boston public schools as protest against de facto segregation.