Governor Orval Faubus on this day in 1957 banned Black Students from integrating Little Rock’s Central High School. This was to be countered by President Eisenhower in a struggle that became the Little Rock Nine story.
On this day in 1908, acclaimed writer Richard Wright was born in 1908.
One of America’s celebrated inventors, Lewis Latimer, was born on this day in 1848. He invented the incandescent light bulb.
On this day in 1981, Beyoncé Knowles Carter was born in Houston. She is arguably the world’s greatest artiste.
Los Angeles was settled as a city by 44 settlers on this day in 1781. Among these settlers were about 26 people of African descent and native populations. Los Angeles, like the United States, was diverse in the beginning.
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