Today in Black History – January 8

*1912: African National Congress was founded. *1922: Col. Charles Young, the first African American to achieve rank in the U.S. Army, died. *1989: The oldest integration lawsuit in the United States — originally filed in 1952 by the NAACP and John Hall — was settled. Copyright 2011 Chicago Defender

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