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Akwasi Osei

Reginald Martinez Jackson, popularly known as Reggie Jackson, was born on this day in 1946. Jackson is one of the few athletes who used his skills on the field to build a brand, including his boast that a candy bar will be named after him. It happened. He was Baseball’s ‘Mr. October’, as he shined the brightest during all the World Series he played in.



 

Ernest ‘Ernie’ Davis was the first Black person to win the Heisman Trophy, College Football’s top award. He was drafted first by the Cleveland Browns in that year’s NFL draft; however, he was diagnosed with leukemia and died on this day in 1963. He never played a game in the professional ranks.



 

On this day in 1896, the United States Supreme Court handed down the Plessy v Ferguson decision that cemented legal segregation which had been in practice since the end of Reconstruction. This separate but equal doctrine would last until it was set aside in 1954 by Brown v Board of Education.



 

Anna Julia Haywood Cooper was an author, academic, Black liberation activist, feminist, and pan-Africanist. On this day in 1893, at the World’s Congress of Representative Women, she gave a speech on the progress that black Women had made. It was essentially a life story since she herself had been born into slavery but had risen to become intellectual. Her book, A Voice from the South is considered the first truly feminist book. She earned her PhD from the Sorbonne, in Paris, France.








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