Cornell Ronald West, professor, philosopher, activist, orator, and public intellectual, was born on this day in 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
On this day in 1863, Harriet Tubman, in her role as a leader of the Union effort in the Civil War, led about 150 Black Union soldiers to free about 800 formerly enslaved in the Combahee River Raid in South Carolina.
James Augustine Healy became the first Black Catholic Bishop in the U.S Catholic Church when he was consecrated the Bishop of Portland, Maine on this day in 1875.
Kenneth Irvine Chenault, lawyer, and business mogul, and former Chief Executive Officer of American Express, was born on this day in 1951 in Long Island, New York.
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