To Inspire You

To those who have said, 'Be patient and wait,' we have long said that we cannot be patient. We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now! We are tired. We are tired of being beaten by policemen. We are tired of seeing our people locked up in jail over and over again.

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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