Lauretha Vaird Street Renaming

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In 1830- First Negro Convention of Free Men agree to start their boycott on slave-produced goods
In 1974- Officer Gail Cobb of the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C., is shot and killed while attempting to apprehend a robbery suspect. Officer Cobb is the first of 73 African-American female officers to be killed in the line of duty.