Voices In Color

Today's Black Fact

On this day in 1972, Angela Davis was acquitted by a white jury in San Jose, Calif., of charges stemming from a 1970 courtroom shoot-out.

Today's Black Fact(s)

1.  On this day in 1906, Josephine Baker was born in St. Louis, Missouri.

2.  On this day in 1942, Curtis Mayfield was born  in Chicago, Illinois.

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On this day in 1943, Gale Sayers, youngest player ever to be elected to the Football Hall of Fame, is born.

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On this day in 1851, Sojourner Truth delivers her infamous "Ain't I A Woman?" speech to the Ohio Women's Rights Convention.

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On this day in 1940, Betty Shabazz, activist and widow of Malcolm X was born in Detroit, Michigan.

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On this day in 1936, actor Louis Gossett, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, NY. Gossett won an Academy Award for his role in the movie "An Officer and a Gentleman."

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On this day in 1981, reggae legend, Bob Marley, dies.

Today's Black Fact(s)

1. On this day in 1966, Bill Cosby becomes the first African American to receive an Emmy for best actor in a dramatic series, for his role in I Spy.
2. On this day in 1967, poet, Langston Hughes, dies.

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On this day in 1881, Blanche Kelso Bruce is sworn in as U.S. Senator from Mississippi; the first black man to serve a full term in the senate, and the first person born into slavery to preside over the senate. While serving in the senate, he was an advocate for civil rights for blacks, native Americans, Chinese immigrants and former Confederates (as we remember, the radical republicans weren't too nice to that group).

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On this day in 1961, a mob attacked Freedom Riders in Montgomery. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy dispatched four hundred U.S. marshals to Montgomery to keep order in Freedom Rider controversy.