One of America’s most iconic boxers of all time, Ray Charles Leonard, popularly known as Sugar Ray Leonard, was born on this day in 1956. In 20 years of professional boxing, he won championships in five weight divisions,
Federal Judge William Hastie was on this day in 1946 appointed to be the Governor of the United States Virgin Islands. He was the first Black person in that role.
E. Franklin Frazier was one of America’s noted intellectuals and authorities on the Black condition in the US. In eight books and over eighty papers, his writings influenced how people understood Black America. He died on this day in 1962.
On this day in 1954, the United States Supreme Court handed down the earth-shaking Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The decision stipulated that public school segregation was inherently unequal and therefore violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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