On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

1960 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Defending champion Maria Bueno of Brazil beats South Africa’s Sandra Reynolds 8-6, 6-0.

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

We’ve come from slave ship to spaceship, and we will continue to rise into endeavors far beyond that.” Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier airs tonight at 8 p.m. ET on the Smithsonian ...