#BLM OTD 1951 — The "Johnny Bright Incident." During a college football game between Drake University &Oklahoma A&M, Drake's star, Black quarterback, Johnny Bright, was targeted in a brutal, racially motivated on-field attack that broke his jaw.
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#BLM OTD 1870 the 1st African Americans were elected to the House of Representatives winning 3 of 4 congressional seats in South Carolina:Joseph H. Rainey, Robert C. Delarge & Robert B. Elliott (Hiram Revels was elected to the Senate in 1869 & seated in 1870.)
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#BLM OTD 1968 at the medal ceremony of the 200-meter dash at the Olympics in Mexico City U.S.'s Tommie Smith & John Carlos, on the podium, raised black-gloved fists during The Star-Spangled Banner to demonstrate against racial injustice & human rights abuses.
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#BLM OTD 1966, Bobby Seale & Huey P. Newton founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland, California in response to persistent systemic poverty, police brutality, discrimination & the killing of 16-year-old Matthew Johnson by a San Francisco cop.
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#BLM OTD 1964 Dr. MLK, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at age 35, making him the youngest man ever to receive the honor. He was recognized for his leadership of the Civil Rights Movement & his commitment to nonviolent resistance vs racial inequality.
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#BLM OTD 1792 The White House cornerstone was laid in Washington, D.C., a construction project in which enslaved African Americans performed forced, vital labor, including carpentry, masonry, plastering, and stone-cutting.
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#BLM OTD 1871 President Ulysses S. Grant suspended the writ of habeas corpus in 9 South Carolina counties to crack down on KKK terror targeting Black citizens. He ordered the KKK in SC to disperse & surrender their weapons, following the passage of the KKK Act.
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#BLM OTD 1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt's White House affirmed its stance of racial segregation in the U.S. Armed Forces, stating the government's "policy is not to intermingle colored and white enlisted personnel in the same regimental organizations".
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#BLM OTD 1775: The Continental Army's Council of Officers officially barred enslaved and free Black people from joining the army to fight in the American Revolution, driven largely by southern fears that armed Black individuals would demand their own freedom.
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#BLM OTD 1993 Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature making her the 1st Black woman to receive it. The Swedish Academy praised her novels as a "visionary force and poetic import" that give "life to an essential aspect of American reality".
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#BLM OTD 1847 The First National Black Convention: More than 60 delegates from 9 states met in Troy, NY to strategize to end slavery & encourage boycotts of slave-labored goods. It featured Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell & Dr. James McCune Smith.
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#BLM OTD 1958 segregationists bombed & destroyed Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennesse. In August 1956 it had become the 1st state-funded public high school in the South to desegregate following a federal court order. 12 Black students attended the school.
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#BLM OTD 1967 Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the 1st Black Supreme Court Justice in U.S. history.

President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Marshall to the nation's highest court, where he was confirmed by the Senate and sworn in by Chief Justice Earl Warren.
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#BLM OTD 1948 California Supreme Court voided the state's ban on interracial marriage in Perez v. Sharp. It was the 1st time a 20th-century state court struck down an anti-miscegenation law & set precedent for the 1967 nationwide decision in Loving v. Virginia.
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#BLM OTD 1864 13 Black soldiers were among the first African Americans honored with the U.S. Medal of Honor for leading heroic charges against Confederate fortifications during the Battle of New Market Heights in Virginia.
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#BLM OTD 1962 President JFK mobilized US marshals & federalized the Mississippi Nt'l Guard to enforce integration of the U of Mississippi by Black Air Force vet James Meredith. Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett defied court orders requiring Meredith's admission.
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#BLM OTD 1868 The horrific Opelousas Massacre took place in Opelousas, Louisiana. White supremacist paramilitaries murdered an estimated 150 to 200-plus African Americans and their Republican allies during a wave of Reconstruction-era political violence.
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#BLM OTD 1957 The Little Rock Nine tried to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School under police escort, though were sent home early after angry crowds gathered outside. President Eisenhower then federalized the National Guard to protect the students.
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#BLM OTD 1862 in response to heavy Confederate losses at the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, threatening to free all enslaved people in rebelling states if those states did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863.
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#BLM OTD 1814 Andrew Jackson issued a proclamation in Mobile, Alabama, urging free Black people to join and support the U.S. forces during the War of 1812 - "to rally around the standard of the eagle."
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