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Mary Ann Shad Cary, anti-slavery activist and abolitionist, lawyer, and newspaper publisher, was born on this day in 1823 in Wilmington, DE. She established and edited the Provincial Freeman newspaper that catered to abolitionists across North America.


 

Uganda proclaimed its independence from the United Kingdom on this day in 1962.


 

On this day in 1975, Frank Robinson is appointed the Manager of the Cleveland Guardians baseball team, the first Black Manager in the major leagues.




 


Scholar and politician Leopold Sedar Senghor, long time President of Senegal, was born on this day in 1906 in Joal, Senegal.














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