Lauretha Vaird Street Renaming

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In 1884- John R. Lynch, former congressman from Mississippi, elected temporary chairman of Republican convention and became first Black to preside over deliberations of a national political party
In 1885- Samuel David Ferguson consecrated bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church and named bishop of Liberia. He was the first Black American with full membership in the House of Bishops
In 1943- On this day Black American soldiers faced off against White American Military Police during Word War II on British soil in the town of Bamber Bridge in Lancashire

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