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This year’s Journey into 366 Days of Black History focuses on the achievements of African Americans in law, literature, education, religion, civil rights, military service, commerce, sports, and the arts. Attorneys Thurgood Marshall, George Hayes, and James Nabrit Jr., for example, were among those arguing for school desegregation in the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education; Marshall later became the first African American justice of the US Supreme Court. Robert Hayden was the nation’s first African American Poet Laureate. Mahalia Jackson’s gospel singing brought strength and spirituality to the civil rights movement. For their contributions to American society, this calendar honors these people and ten other individuals and groups, with thirteen historical photographs from the Library of Congress and twelve concise biographies and essays. Each day lists important birthdates or milestones in black history.