Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana, was born in Nkroful, Ghana on this day in 1909.
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On this day in 1872, John Henry Conyers enrolled as the first Black person at the United States Naval Academy.
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Inventor F. W Leslie patented the envelope seal on this day in 1891.
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Maria Stewart was an early anti-slavery crusader who, on this day in 1832 gave an address to the New England Anti-Slavery Society. It was generally considered as one of the rare times a woman in those days spoke to both Blacks and Whites.
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