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Women and African American History: 2000-
2000
• (July) Venus Williams became the first African American to win the women's title at Wimbledon since Althea Gibson (1957-58)
• Condoleezza Rice named as the next Secretary of State, the first African American woman to hold that position
2001
• Arkansas named a state holiday for Daisy Bates, the first state to name a holiday for an African American woman
• Ruth Simmons, Brown University, became the first African American president of an Ivy League university
2002
• (March 24) Halle Berry became the first African American to win the Best Actress Oscar
• (May 22) Bobby Frank Cherry found guilty of murder in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham which killed four African American girls, ages 11-14
2003
• (January) bus, made famous by Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat, added to exhibit at Henry Ford Museum, Michigan
• (June 23) Supreme Court upheld affirmative action used in university admissions
• (September) Carol Moseley Braun announced her candidacy for US president, the second African American woman to run for that office
2004
• (January 14) Carol Moseley Braun dropped her race for the US presidency
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