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Akwasi Osei

Updated: Jan 31, 2023

Gary Wayne Coleman, comedian, actor, and writer, was born on this day in 1968 in Zion, Illinois. He a major child start of television in the 1970s and 1980s.



 


On this day in 1974, Good Times premiered on CBS Television stations across the US. It was the story of a Black family in a Chicago housing building.



 



On this day in 1944, Harry S. McAlpin became the first African American to cover a presidential news conference at the White House.






 


The Orangeburg Massacre took place on this day on the campus of South Carolina State University on this day in 1968. South Carolina Highway Patrol shot into a crowd protesting segregation, killing three students.




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