Cornell Ronald West, professor, philosopher, activist, orator, and public intellectual, was born on this day in 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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On this day in 1863, Harriet Tubman, in her role as a leader of the Union effort in the Civil War, led about 150 Black Union soldiers to free about 800 formerly enslaved in the Combahee River Raid in South Carolina.
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James Augustine Healy became the first Black Catholic Bishop in the U.S Catholic Church when he was consecrated the Bishop of Portland, Maine on this day in 1875.
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Kenneth Irvine Chenault, lawyer, and business mogul, and former Chief Executive Officer of American Express, was born on this day in 1951 in Long Island, New York.
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