During his career, he won thirty-three major tennis titles, including the U.S. Open in the men's singles championship at Wimbleton in 1975. There is a statue of Authur Ashe in Richmond that is a memorial to this famous Virginian. The End of Segregation 1954 was a very special year for African Americans because it was the year that segregation in schools ended. In May of that year, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was illegal. They said that separate schools were not equal and that all children should go to the same school together.
Segregation means being separated because of a reason like skin color.
African Americans fought for freedom and equality. In the year 1989, Lawrence Douglas Wilder was elected governor of Virginia. Many people wonder why this event was so special. It was a major hit because Wilder was the first black American Governor. He went to the Howard University Law School in Washington, D.C. and he graduated in 1959.