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The Six Triple Eight: The 6888th Postal Directory Battalion
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The 6888th Postal Directory Unit was a historic and groundbreaking unit in World War II. The battalion consisted on 850 women in the Woman's Auxillary Corp (WACs). Afteer peititioning the War Department for over two year...
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On 1 January 1923, the Rosewood Massacre occurred in central Florida, destroying a predominantly Black neighbourhood, fuelled by a false allegation.
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Haitian Independence, January 1, 1804
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On 1 January 1804, Haiti became an independent republic, following the revolution which had begun 13 years earlier as a rebellion of enslaved people against slavery and French colonialism. Previously known as Saint-Domi...
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In Remembrance: Frances Cress Welsing
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Charity Adams Earley, U.S. Army First Female Officer
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Note: Historianspeaks has received permission to republish unique OTD information on African Americans from Jerry Mitchell, a reporter at Mississippi Today. Please find the link to the Mississippi Today OTD at the end of...
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Sammy Younge Jr, Civil Rights Activist, Murdered, 1966
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On 3 January 1966, military veteran and civil rights activist Sammy Younge, Jr was murdered in Alabama. Younge was killed by a gas station attendant in Macon County for trying to use the "whites-only" restroom.
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Minnie Cox, Black Female Postmaster, Indianola, Mississippi
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#OnThisDay in 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt shut down the post office in Indianola, Mississippi, to take a stand against terror.
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