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September 27, 2021
Saint Katharine Drexel
Sister Katharine Drexel, now Saint Katharine Drexel, founded Xavier University on this day in 1925. It is the only Catholic Historically Black and College and University (HBCU).
Also on this day
John Mercer Langston
Abolitionist, Lawyer, educator and politician John Mercer Langston was named Minister to Haiti in 1877.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first Black to serve in the United States Senate, was born free on this day in 1827 in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Ralph J. Bunche
Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations Mediator in Palestine, became the first Black person to win the Nobel Peace Prize on this day in 1950.
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