1920 ~ Andrew "Rube" Foster organized the first Black baseball league, the Negro National League.
1923 ~ Rosewood, FL, town of affluent Blacks, was destroyed by mobs of angry Whites. (1997 Movie)
1971 ~ Black Congressional members organized the Congressional Black Caucus to address to provide awarance and to create alliances, politically, racially and socially, issues of key concern to Black community.
2005 ~ Barack Obama began on his path to the Presidency. He was sworn in as the junior Senator from Illinois, 3rd Black U.S. Senator since reconstruction, only 5 in U.S. history.
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