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To Inspire You
No Black history becomes significant and meaningful unless it is taught in the context of world and national history. In its sealed off, black-studies centers, it will be simply an exercise in racial breast feeding
Roy Wilkins
Today In History
In 1780
- African Union Society of Newport, RI was the first attested Black mutual aid society
In 1898
- Eight blacks killed during the race riot in Wilmington, NC
In 1957
- By winning the Long Beach Open, Charlie Sifford became first black person to win a major professional golf tournament