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Today In History

• In 1960 - Somali proclaimed independent.
  
• In 1976 - Kenneth Gibson, mayor of Newark, became the first Black president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
  
• In 2009 - Ursula Burns becomes first African American Female to be named President and Chief Executive Officer of a Fortune 500 company, Xerox Corp
  
• In 1964 - On July 1, 1964, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) deemed the collective bargaining contract between the Hughes company and the Independent Metal Workers Union to be illegal under the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act.
  

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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

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