Myrlie Louise Beasley Evers-Williams, Civil Rights veteran, activist, and journalist was born on this day in 1933 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She married Medgar Evers, the Mississippi Field Secretary for the NAACP, and together travelled the length and breadth of the state educating, and registering Black people to vote, advocating for equal opportunity, and desegregation. In 1962, their home was bombed by the K.K.K, and her husband was killed. She stayed in the struggle for decades, becoming a long serving Chairwoman of the NAACP.
David Patterson became the first Black Governor of the State of New York when he was sworn in on this day in 2008. Governor Patterson also notched another accolade since he is legally blind.
Charles Brooks received a US Patent issued on this day in 1896 for inventing the self-propelled street sweeping truck.
Nathaniel Adams Coles, also known as Nat King Cole, jazz singer, pianist, was born on this day in 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama.
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