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The Jail-In Movement started on this day in 1961 in Rock Hill, South Carolina when nine young Blacks insisted on a jail term as opposed to paying a fine after being arrested at a lunch counter. The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee sang “Jail, no bail”.

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The first free Africans who started the new nation that became Liberia set sail on this day in 1820 from New York Harbor.

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Tennis great Arthur Ashe dies on this day in 1993 in New York City.

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On this day in 1945, Reggae music legend Robert Nesta ‘Bob’ Marley is born in Nine Mile, St. Ann Parish in Jamaica.