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Akwasi Osei

Updated: Jan 31, 2023

On this day in 1960, four freshmen at North Carolina A & T University initiated the Sit-in Movement of the Civil Rights Struggles. Ezell Blair (later Jibreel Khazan), Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond sat in the lunch of the local Woolworth’s. They were refused service, and they refused to leave until the store closed. They were joined the next day by 25 other students, and over the next several weeks 250 cities had their own sit-ins in local stores. Woolworth’s desegregated its lunch counter three months later.



 

James Mercer Langston Hughes, a great poet of the Harlem Renaissance, was born on this day in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri.





 




Bishop Henry McNeal Turner, AME Minister, and politician were born free on this day in 1834 in Newberry, South Carolina. He was an influential leader of Blacks in the Nineteenth Century.















 






On this day in 1990, the United States Postal Service issued a postage stamp in honor and remembrance of Ida B. Wells. She was a journalist, editor, activist, and freedom fighter whose courage knew no bounds as she confronted deadly Jim Crow. She was effectively banished from the South.



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