The challenge of the 21st century is not to demand equal opportunity in the machinery of oppression, but rather to identify and dismantle those structures in which racism continues to be embedded
In 1864
- Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first black woman to receive an M.D. degree. She graduated from the New England Female Medical College
In 2009
- Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington becomes the 1st African American to appear on an American coin, the District of Columbia commemmorative quarter
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