#OTD, we celebrate Labor Day. The holiday honors the triumphs of U.S. workers. It originated in the late 19th century, when labor activists advocated for a federal holiday to recognize that workers strengthen and enhance the nation's prosperity and well-being.

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Claudette Colvin was born #OTD in 1939. She was 15 years old when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, #Alabama, bus for a white person, nine months before Rosa Parks famously inspired the Montgomery bus boycott for the same reason.

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Charles Hamilton Houston, known as "the man who killed Jim Crow," was born #OTD in 1895.

He's responsible for integrated housing and integrated schools. He worked on nearly every civil rights case before the Supreme Court between 1930 and Brown v. Board of Education.

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