TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—August 24, 1950 Edith Sampson, first Black delegate to United Nations appointed by President Harry S. Truman.

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Learn more about this extraordinary woman in Book of Black Heroes: Great Women in the Struggle, published by Just Us Books.