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Akwasi Osei

On this day in 1958, ten thousand young people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC for the first Youth March for Integrated Schools. They were addressed by, among others, Daisy Bates, Harry Belafonte, A Phillip Randolph, and Jackie Robinson.



 


On this day in 1940, Brigadier-General Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr, became the first Black general in the United States Army.









 

A court struck a blow for justice on this day in 1988 when two Klan Units and eleven individuals were ordered to pay $1 million for attacking Black people at a Klan rally.





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