Pace-setting Civil rights lawyer and Women’s rights activist Pauli Murray passed away in Pittsburgh, PA. She was also the first Black woman priest ordained by the Episcopal Church.
Kenneth Gibson became the first black mayor of an Eastern city when he assumed the post in Newark, New Jersey in 1970.
The largest single gift to date from a black organization was the $132,000 given by the Links, Inc., to the United Negro College Fund in 1974
In 1873, Henry O. Flipper enrolled at West Point Military Academy.
In 1889, Frederick Douglass was appointed as Minister to Haiti, the first and only nation in the world that overthrew slavery.
Thomas Dorsey, the ‘Father’ of Gospel Music, was born this day in 1899.
In 1863, the Dutch West Indies abolished slavery.
Ghana, the first nation south of the Sahara to gain its independence, became a Republic. Legally, Ghana was totally free of any outside control.
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