To Inspire You

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed

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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