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To Inspire You

We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity


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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