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In 1973, the Treaty of Chaguaramas established the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), a grouping of Caribbean nations to foster economic development and cooperation among its member states.

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In 1991, the National Civil Rights Museum was opened at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Booker T. Washington opened Tuskegee Institute on this day in 1881.

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In 1963, President John F. Kennedy presented the first Presidential Medal of Freedom to Ralph J. Bunche and Marian Anderson.

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The state of New York abolished slavery on this day in 1827.

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On this day in 1854 at an Anti-Slavery meeting William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of The Liberator, an anti-slavery tract, burned a copy of the United States constitution.