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In page Timeline of African-American history:

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1939

  • Billie Holiday first performs "Strange Fruit" in New York City. The song, a protest against lynching written by Abel Meeropol under the pen name Lewis Allan, became a signature song for Holiday.[citation needed]
  • The Little League is formed, becoming the nation's first non-segregated youth sport.[citation needed]
  • August 21 – Five African-American men recruited and trained by African-American attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker conduct a sit-in at the then-segregated Alexandria, Virginia, library and are arrested after being refused library cards.[3]