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.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them
James Baldwin
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