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Rosa Parks and her defiant act of refusing to give up her seat in December 1955 in Montgomery, Ala. helped…
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The first intercollegiate football contest between Black colleges took place on this day in 1892. Biddle College, now Johnson C.…
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Viola Irene Desmond became a part of Canadian history for her defiant act in 1946 against a racist movie theater’s…
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