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- Akwasi Osei
- Jul 12, 2022
- 1 min read
E. Frederic Morrow is appointed as an aide to President Dwight. D. Eisenhower, becoming the first African American to occupy a senior executive White House position.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on this day in 1868. It granted citizenship rights to all people born or naturalized in the U.S., guaranteed equal protection under the law, and guaranteed due process for all.
June Jordan, highly acclaimed writer, poet, essayist, educator and activist was born on this day in 1936 in Harlem.
Dr. Walter Massey gets an appointment as the Director of the Argonne National Laboratory, a major U S government center for research in the sciences.
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