Black History Fact
Mon, Sep 21
|United States
General Colin Powell "Click on RSVP for more Information"
Time & Location
Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM – 11:50 PM
United States, United States
About the event
On September 21, 1989, Four Star General Colin Powell was confirmed unanimously by the Senate Armed Forces Committee as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
A month earlier on August 10, 1989, he was nominated as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by President H.W. Bush. He was the first African American and the youngest person at age 52 to hold the highest military position in the Department of Defense.
Powell was born on April 5, 1937 in Harlem, New York City.His parents Luther Theophilus and Maud Arial Powell had immigrated from Jamaica.
Powell grew up in the South Bronx section of New York City. He received in 1958 a BS degree n geology from the City College of New York and an Army Commission as a second lieutenant from the ROTC program.
He graduated in 1971 with a MBA from George Washington University after…