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58th Anniversary Scholarship Dinner

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Today In History

  • In 1839- Liberty Party, first anti-slavery political party, organized at Warsaw, NY
  • In 1894- A.C. Richardson patents the casket lowering device
  • In 1913- Daniel Hale Williams becomes first black elected to American College of Surgeons. Was also first person to perform open heart surgery
  • In 1940- Supreme Court ruled in Hansberry v. Lee that whites can't bar African Americans from white neighborhoods

To Inspire You

  • I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed


    Ralph Ellison

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