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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
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The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class--it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity
Anna Julia Cooper
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