Today In Black History
Facts You Should Know!
Issue #411 Black History November 13, 2023
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Today’s Black WOW: Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) suspended his presidential campaign on Sunday. His supporters and financial backers were surprised, but he may not have been able to qualify for the 4th Republican debate.
Today’s Black History:
In 1913 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, educator and pioneer heart surgeon, became a member of the American College of Surgeons.
In 1940 the Supreme Court ruled in Hansberry v Lee that Blacks cannot be barred from white neighborhoods. Carl Hansberry, the father of novelist and playwright Lorraine Hansberry, was seeking to move into a white neighborhood.
In 1957 the Supreme Court ruled that Alabama’s laws allowing segregation on buses (particularly those in Birmingham) were unconstitutional.
In 1967 Carl B. Stokes was inaugurated as mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, making him the first Black Mayor of a major American city.
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