To Inspire You

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstarps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, and Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

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Today In History

• In 1885 - Samuel David Ferguson consecrated bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church and named bishop of Liberia. He was the first Black American with full membership in the House of Bishops
  
• In 1884 - John R. Lynch, former congressman from Mississippi, elected temporary chairman of Republican convention and became first Black to preside over deliberations of a national political party