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A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
Malcolm X
Today In History
In 1839
- Liberty Party, first anti-slavery political party, organized at Warsaw, NY
In 1894
- A.C. Richardson patents the casket lowering device
In 1913
- Daniel Hale Williams becomes first black elected to American College of Surgeons. Was also first person to perform open heart surgery
In 1940
- Supreme Court ruled in Hansberry v. Lee that whites can't bar African Americans from white neighborhoods
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