To Inspire You

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

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Today In History

• In 1991 - Baltimore Orioles manager Frank Robinson is named assistant general manager of the club, the third African American to become as assistant GM
  
• In 1922 - Samuel Gravely, first African American admiral in the U.S. Navy, and first African American to command a U.S. warship, born