WR Bobby Mitchell in 1962.
If you mean the Baseball Hall of Fame, it was Jackie Robinson who was elected in 1962.
First black man in the hall of fame
In 1962, Jackie Robinson became the first African American baseball player to be elected into the National Hall of Fame. He was also the very first African American player to play in the National Baseball league.
this was in about 1962.
It was Jackie Robinson, who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 to 1956. He was elected to Cooperstown in 1962, his first year of eligibility.
John Black died March 20, 1962, in Rutherford, NJ, USA.
Jackie Robinson was inducted into the MLB Hall of Fame in 1962.
On October 1, 1962 James Meredith became the first Afro-American enrolled at the University of Mississippi.
Jackie Robinson
If you mean the Baseball Hall of Fame, all players elected to the H of F that year, were elected by the Veterans Committe, and only one Black player was elected by the Special Committee on Negro Leagues, Satchel Paige. Regular election to the H of F were elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America, and no modern day player received enough votes to be elected that year.
Black - singer - was born in 1962.