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The Jeffersons is a long-running situation comedy of African American urban life that premiered on this day in 1975 on CBS.

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Elijah Eugene Cummings, politician and civil rights lawyer and activist, was born on this day in 1951 in Baltimore, Maryland. He served in the Maryland House of Delegates for thirteen years, then got elected to the US House of Representatives in from 1996 to 2019. He rose to become one of the leaders of the House.

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“But not only that, we've got to strengthen black institutions. I call upon you to take your money out of the banks downtown and deposit your money in Tri-State Bank. We want a "bank-in" movement in Memphis. Go by the savings and loan association. I'm not asking you something that we don't do ourselves at SCLC. Judge Hooks and others will tell you that we have an account here in the savings and loan association from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. We are telling you to follow what we are doing. Put your money there. You have six or seven black insurance companies here in the city of Memphis. Take out your insurance there. We want to have an "insurance-in."

Now these are some practical things that we can do. We begin the process of building a greater economic base. And at the same time, we are putting pressure where it really hurts. I ask you to follow through here.”

MLK, Jr, 1968