To Inspire You

What we need now, more than anything else, are people who are willing to do the difficult work of bridging gaps and healing wounds, people in our communities who can rally others together, across lines of division, for the greater good, people who reject cynicism and winner-take-all politics, and instead embrace the more difficult work this generation now faces: to unite our country in common cause

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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