Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1848 Lewis Latimer, the son of formerly enslaved parents who became a pioneering inventor and improved the carbon filament for the electric lightbulb, was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
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Photo by Gordon Parks, U.S. Farm Security Administration — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1908 Novelist Richard Wright, author of "Native Son" and "Black Boy," who became a defining voice of 20th-century African American literature, was born near Natchez, Mississippi.
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Photo by Gordon Parks, U.S. Office of War Information — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons A concert by singer and activist Paul Robeson near Peekskill, New York, was followed by a violent mob attack on concertgoers, in an incident that became known as the Peekskill riots.
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Photo by Will Counts (1957) — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1957 Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to block Black students from enrolling at Little Rock Central High School, opening the Little Rock Crisis over school desegregation.
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Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-D0116-0041-019 — CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, Wikimedia Commons 1965 Albert Schweitzer, the physician, theologian, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate renowned for founding a hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon, died there at age 90.
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