To Inspire You

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstarps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, and Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

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Today In History

• In 1955 - Start of Montgomery Bus Boycott
  
• In 1987 - Carrie Saxon Perry begins terms as Mayor of Hartford, CT, becoming first black woman mayor of a major US city
  
• In 1961 - Ernie Davis becomes first African American to win Heisman Trophy
  
• In 1641 - Massachusetts becomes first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery