Henry Ossawa Tanner was an African American painter and artist who was one of the first to gained international acclaim. The Banjo lesson, 1893, was one of his most popular works. He moved to Paris, where he died on this day in 1937
On this day in 1941, Asa Phillip Randolph, the leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters issued a call for a march on Washington to demand freedom from “Want, from fear, and from Jim Crow”
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