AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY

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On this day in 1894, Albert C. Richardson patented the casket lowering device. The invention's patent number is #529311.

Response To Black Children Gaining Access To Closer Schools In The 1970s

Running barefoot, Abebe Bikila made history as the first Black African Olympic gold medalist and set a World Record at the 1960 Rome Olympics.

"When any white man in the world says, give me liberty or give me death, the entire white world applauds. When a Black man says exactly the same thing, he is judged a criminal and treated like one."

—James Baldwin(1969)