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October 25, 2021
Youth March for Integrated Schools
On this day in 1958, ten thousand young people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC for the first Youth March for Integrated Schools. They were addressed by, among others, Daisy Bates, Harry Belafonte, A Phillip Randolph, and Jackie Robinson.
Also on this day
Brigadier-General Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr.
On this day in 1940, Brigadier-General Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr., became the first Black general in the United States Army.
A court struck a blow for justice on this day in 1988 when two Klan Units and eleven individuals were ordered to pay $1 million for attacking Black people at a Klan rally.
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