To Inspire You

His headstone said "Free at last, Free at last" - But death is a slave's freedom - We seek the freedom of free men - And the construction of a world - Where Martin Luther King could have lived - and preached non-violence

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Today In History

• In 1899 - George F. Grant patents golf tee
  
• In 1950 - Jesse Leroy Brown becomes first African American naval officer to die in combat
  
• In 1870 - Joseph H. Rainey becomes 1st African American directly elected to congress from South Carolina