Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka (Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka) was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria on this day in 1934.
On this day in 1972, Shirley Chisholm garnered 151 votes of delegates, making her the first true African American presidential candidate.
On this date in 1868, Oscar J. Dunn was installed as the Lt. Governor of the State of Louisiana. Dunn, a former enslaved person, became the highest Black person in elective office in the U.S.
On this date in 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, the bloodiest anti-Black violence was unleashed in New York. This was in response to the mandatory draft put in place during the war. Groups of whites went on rampages murdering and killing blacks.
Thurgood Marshall, the noted civil rights lawyer, was appointed Solicitor General of the U.S. government in 1965. In this position, he argued the federal government’s cases at the Supreme Court.
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