The National Guard had occupied Delaware’s largest city for nine months in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, and the trauma from both of these events left the Black community reeling, marking a moment in Wilmington’s history that city residents still recall today.
November 1: American Journalist, John E. Bruce Speaks on the “Return to the Ancestral Homeland,”1877
October 31: Great American Singer, Ethel Waters was born, 1900
October 30: Muhammad Ali VS. George Foreman
October 29: U.S. Supreme Court Act Against School Segregation, 1969
October 27: Former UN Ambassador, Andrew Young, elected mayor of Atlanta, 1981
October 26: Inventor T. Marshall Patented the Fire Extinguisher, 1872
Mike Mason was one of the nation’s highest-ranking FBI officials. Now he drives students to school in a yellow school bus each morning and afternoon.
Women over 50 who breastfed their babies performed better on cognitive tests compared to women who never breastfed a new study led by researchers at UCLA Health revealed.
October 25: Zadie Smith, writer and essayist, was Born in London, 1975
October 23: NNAMDI AZIKIWE SPEAKS BEFORE THE BRITISH PEACE CONFERENCE IN LONDON
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