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 1969 - Charles Evers takes oath as mayor of Fayette, MS to become 1st black mayor since Reconstruction
  
• In 1856 - Mary Coombs purchases tract of land on corner of Wheat and Peachtree Streets in Atlanta to become 1st black property owner in GA