“Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The
whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet
made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has
been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all
other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no
struggle there is no progress.”
—Frederick Douglass, Civil Disobedience Manual
TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY
July 31, 1874 – Patrick Francis Healy becomes president of
Georgetown, one of the nation’s leading universities. He is the first person of
African ancestry to head a major university in the United States.
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