Ronald Erwin McNair was one of the first three Black Astronauts chosen in 1978. On this day in 1986, he was one of the crew members aboard during the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Zora Neale Hurston, anthropologist, teacher, folklorist, ethnographer, writer, and filmmaker died on this day in 1960 in Florida.
The Free Africa Society was organized by Bishop Richard Allen and Reverend Absalom Jones on this day in 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its objective was to “provide mutual aid for free Africans and their descendants” in Philadelphia.
“And we are not wrong, we are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. If we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to earth. If we are wrong, justice is a lie. Love has no meaning. And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
MLK, Jr, 1955
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