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We can choose either to walk the high road of human brotherhood or to tread the low road of man's inhumanity to man
Martin Luther King, Jr
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
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