July 5 – Arthur Ashe makes history by becoming the first African American male to win the men’s single title at Wimbledon, 1975.
July 6 – African American inventor Henry Sampson creates the cellular phone, 1971.
July 6 –William Wells Brown publishes Clotel, the first novel published by an African American, 1853.
July 7 – Baseball legend Satchel Paige is born in Mobile, Alabama, 1906.
July 9 – The first successful open heart surgery without is performed by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams at Provident Hospital in Chicago, 1893.
July 10 – Educator and civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune is born in Mayesville, South Carolina, 1875.
July 11 – The Niagara Movement (the forerunner of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is established. Among its leaders include Dr. W.E.B. DuBois and William Monroe Trotter, 1905.
July 12 – Award-winning comedian and actor William (“Bill”) Henry Cosby is born on this day in Philadelphia, 1937.
July 13 – Shirley Chisholm became the first African American Presidential nominee, with 151 votes from the delegates polled, 1972.
July 14 – George Washington Carver National Monument is presented in Joplin, Mo., 1951.