Today In History

• In 1839- Liberty Party, first anti-slavery political party, organized at Warsaw, NY
• In 1894- A.C. Richardson patents the casket lowering device
• In 1913- Daniel Hale Williams becomes first black elected to American College of Surgeons. Was also first person to perform open heart surgery
• In 1940- Supreme Court ruled in Hansberry v. Lee that whites can't bar African Americans from white neighborhoods
• In 1951- Ballerina Janet Collins becomes first black dancer to appear with the Metropolitan Opera Company
• In 1956- Supreme Court upheld lower court decision which banned segregation on city buses in Montgomery, AL
• In 1985- New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden wins Cy Young Award, making him youngest pitcher ever to win this prestigious award

To Inspire You

What I've realized is that life doesn't count for much unless you're willing to do your small part to leave our children, all of our children, a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

Barack Obama