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Steven Biko, the young anti-Apartheid crusader who founded the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa, was born on this day in 1946.



 


The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Jr., founded Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) on this day in 1971 in Chicago.



 

Raiford Chatman “Ossie’ Davis, an actor, director, poet, playwright, and a civil rights activist, was born on this day in 1917 in Georgia.






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