Black history & heritage
1965
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee rally
San Diegans from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) participated in a rally in Balboa Park after a 24-hour fast to memorialize James Reeb. Reeb was a White Unitarian Universalist minister and civil rights activists murdered by White segregationists in Selma, Ala.
1967
Carlin v. Board of Education case The San Diego Unified School District had received many complaints concerning the segregation of city
schools since the early 1960s. Carlin et al v. Board of Education was a 1967 court case filed against SDUSD by a group of parents citing inequalities for students of all ethnic backgrounds.
For more information on Black history in San Diego and to participate in Celebrate San Diego: Black History & Heritage at the San Diego History Center, go to sandiegohistory.org/exhibition/celebratesd_blackhistoryheritage.
In honor of Black History Month, the Union-Tribune has partnered with the San Diego History Center to present items each day in February on local Black history.
On Feb. 25, nationally
1870 – Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi was sworn in as the first Black U.S. senator and first Black representative in Congress.
1948 – Martin Luther King was ordained as a Baptist minister.
1971 – President Richard Nixon met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus and appointed a White House panel to study a list of recommendations made by the group.