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Isaiah Montgomery leads the establishment of an all African American town known as Mount Bayou in Mississippi in 1887.

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F. M. Jones is granted patents on this day in 1949 for a starter generator and an air conditioning unit.

In 1951 on this day, Governor Adlai Stevenson activated the National Guard to curb disturbances. Over 3,000 whites tried to block a Black family from moving into Cicero, Illinois, an all-white town.

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Troops from the National Guard were deployed to impose a limited martial law to Cambridge, Maryland. This was to curb skirmishes between civil rights demonstrators and others who opposed them.