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Akwasi Osei

William Monroe Trotter, journalist, author, businessman, political activist, was born on this day in 1872. He organized a newspaper, the Guardian, with which he fought injustice. He was a founding member of the Niagara Movement, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In a cruel twist of fate, he also died on this day in 1934.



 


Eleanora Fagan, better known as Billie Holiday, also known as ‘Lady Day’, jazz singer extraordinaire, was born on this day in 1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.






 



The first ever United States Postal Service stamp issued in honor of an African American was on this day in 1940. It honored Booker T Washington.


 








Johnson C Smith University, a private HBCU, was founded on this day in 1867 by the Presbyterian Church (USA) in Charlotte, North Carolina.



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