Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as the Mayor of Washington D.C., becoming the first black woman to serve as mayor of a major city.
LA riots were sparked when a jury acquitted 3 white and one Hispanic LA police officer of the beating of Rodney King. Prompted focus on police brutality and recognition of diverse views between issue.
Carol Mosley Braun of Illinois becomes the first African American woman elected to the US Senate.
Dr. Dorothy I. Height, Civil Rights activist, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton.
Toni Morrison is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature becoming the first African-American to win the highest literary honor in the world.
South Africa holds the first elections in which all races vote. Nelson Mandela is elected President.
Million Man March organized by Louis Farrakhan in Washington DC.
Mae Jamison became the first African American woman astronaut to orbit the earth.
Alexis Herman, first Black woman appointed Secretary of Labo.
U.S. President Clinton makes a formal apology to Black men exploited in the U.S. Health Service Tuskegee Syphilis