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Today In History

• In 1990 - Nelson Mandela released from prison after 27 years as South African political prisoner
  
• In 2016 - Dr. Paula Johnson, a Harvard Medical School faculty member, is named as the 14th President of Wellesley College, becoming the first African American to hold the position
  
• In 1996 - Penn's Baccalaureate Speaker was the Right Reverend Barbara Clementine Harris, a Philadelphian who was the first woman ever to become a bishop in the Anglican Communion.
  
• In 1976 - Clifford Alexander, Jr. is confirmed as the first African American Secretary of the Army
  

To Inspire You

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstarps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, and Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

Thurgood Marshall

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