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Akwasi Osei

Spelman College, a private, liberal arts college for women, was founded on this day in 1881 for Black Women.



 




Percy Lavon Julian was a research chemist, inventor, and a pioneer in the field of extracting drugs from plants. He is credited with laying the foundation for certain drugs such as cortisone and other corticosteroids. He was born on this day in 1899 in Montgomery, Alabama.



 



The African Methodist Episcopal Church was born of discrimination when several White Methodist congregations insisted on separation during services. As a result, Richard Allen convened his Free African Society on this day in 1816 into a new, independent Methodist Church established by Black people from five churches along the Mid-Atlantic Coast. He was the first Bishop of the new AME Church.


 







President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, on this day in 1968.

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