1950 - Ralph Bunche Wins the Nobel Peace Prize 1950 - Gwendolyn Brooks Becomes the First Black Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize 1954 - Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 1955 - Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat to a White Passenger on a Montgomery Bus 1956 - Althea Gibson, First Black Woman To Win a Tennis Grand Slam Event 1959 - Lorraine Hansberry's Play 'A Raisin in the Sun is Produced 1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers His I Have a Dream Speech