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Helpful Resources

National Association of Black Law Enforcement Officers	www.nableo.org
Providence Branch NAACP	www.naacpprov.org
Rhode Island General Assembly	www.rilin.state.ri.us/Pages/Default.aspx

Today In History

In 1885 - Samuel David Ferguson consecrated bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church and named bishop of Liberia. He was the first Black American with full membership in the House of Bishops
In 1884 - John R. Lynch, former congressman from Mississippi, elected temporary chairman of Republican convention and became first Black to preside over deliberations of a national political party