John Mercer Langston was a lawyer, abolitionist, diplomat, and politician. On this day in 1869, under Langston's leadership, classes began within the first law department organized at a Black school. That department later became Howard University School of Law .
On this day in 1968, in Los Angeles, John Daniel Singleton was born. He was a gifted film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer; he died on April 28, 2019.
“I want to say that in all of our actions we must stick together. Unity is the great need of the hour, and if we are united, we can get many of the things that we not only desire but which we justly deserve. And don’t let anybody frighten you. We are not afraid of what we are doing because we are doing it within the law. There is never a time in our American democracy that we must ever think we’re wrong when we protest. We reserve that right. When labor all over this nation came to see that it would be trampled over by capitalistic power, it was nothing wrong with labor getting together and organizing and protesting for its rights.”
MLK, Jr, on Unity.
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