To Inspire You

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

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Today In History

• In 1939 - Marian Anderson performs for 65,000 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial after she is refused admission to the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitutional Hall
  
• In 1950 - Juanita Hall becomes the first African American to win a Tony award for her role as Bloody Mary in the musical South Pacific