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In 1985 nearly 300 Black employees that were denied promotions because of racial discrimination were paid 3.5 million dollars by the United States General Accounting Office.

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1885 Eugene Kinckle Jones, the first Executive Secretary of the National Urban League, was born in Richmond, VA.

1866 Edwin G. Walker and Charles L. Mitchell are elected to Massachusetts Assembly from Boston and became the first Blacks to sit in the Legislature of an American state.

1936 Influential blues guitarist and singer Buddy Guy is born in Lettsworth, LA.