Candy, an enslaved African woman, was acquitted of sorcery in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts.
On this day in 1988, Michael Jackson makes history as the first artist to have 5 number one singles from a single album. “Dirty Diana” (from the album BAD), hit # 1 on the Billboard 100.
Vermont became the first state to abolish slavery among the colonies in 1777.
Medgar Evers was born on this day in Decatur, Mississippi in 1925.
In 1908, on this day, Thurgood Marshall, the first Black to serve on the U.S Supreme Court, was born.
Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Congo, was born in 1925.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Denmark Vesey, a former enslaved African was hanged on this day in 1822 for planning perhaps one of the largest slave revolts in the U.S.
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