1947
On June 27, the NAACP honored Percy Julian in New York because of his amazing breakthrough in the area of human reproduction. Percy Julian was a black Research Chemist.
History may record that the single most important psychological event in race relations in the nineteen sixties was the appearance of Negro fighting men on the TV screens of the nation. Acquiring a reputation for military valor is one of the oldest known routes to social equality
-Daniel Patrick Moynihan