In 1977
- John T. Walker installed as the first Black bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Washington
In 1935
- Boxer Joe Louis becomes the first Black boxer to draw a million dollar gate
In 1957
- President Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne to Little Rock, Arkansas — the first federal military protection of civil rights since Reconstruction — so that nine students could attend a public school.
To Inspire You
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W.E.B. Dubois
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