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On this day in 1898, John Merrick and his associates organized a business. This was the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Insurance Company, the first African American owned Insurance Company.
















 

On this day in 1946, Dr. William E. B. DuBois gave a major speech to young people exhorting them to continue the struggles for human dignity for Black People. The speech was called “Behold the Land”,



 







On this day in 1942, in an effort to confront Southern bigotry, sixty leading Black people issued the “Durham Manifesto” that advocated major changes in Black/White interactions in the South.















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