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Solomon George Washington Dill was a White Republican ally who believed in ending slavery. As a State legislator in South Carolina, he was a major part of the Reconstruction Acts that advocated freedom and civil rights for all. On this day in 1868, he was assassinated in his home for his views.

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On this day in 1965, then President Lyndon Baines Johnson gave a graduation speech at Howard University promising change to the conditions of African Americans. The speech, entitled “To Fulfill these Rights”, pledged to change the way African Americans had been treated historically. This was all a part of his several social policy initiatives that made up the Great Societies Programs.