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December 18, 2021
Operation PUSH
The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Jr, founded Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) on this day in 1971 in Chicago.
Also on this day
Raiford Chatman “Ossie’ Davis
Raiford Chatman “Ossie’ Davis, an actor, director, poet, playwright, and a civil rights activist, was born on this day in 1917 in Georgia.
Steven Biko
Steven Biko, the young anti-Apartheid crusader who founded the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa, was born on this day in 1946.
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