Sister Katharine Drexel, now Saint Katharine Drexel, founded Xavier University on this day in 1925. It is the only Catholic Historically Black and College and University (HBCU).
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Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations Mediator in Palestine, became the first Black person to win the Nobel Peace Prize on this day in 1950.
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Abolitionist, Lawyer, educator and politician John Mercer Langston was named Minister to Haiti in 1877.
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Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first Black to serve in the United States Senate, was born free on this day in 1827 in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
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