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Father Patrick Francis Healy, inaugurated as president of Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic University in America, and became the first Black to head a predominantly white university. Father Healy was also the first Black man to receive a Ph.D.

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1981 Attorney Arnette R. Hubbard installed as the first woman president of the National Bar Association.

2005 Black teen Anthony Walker was racially murdered in England with an Ax.