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Paul Robeson’s scheduled singing appearance at the Lakeland picnic grounds in Westchester County, NY is disrupted by a riot instigated and provoked by whites angry at Robeson’s political stands on this date in 1949

Emmit Till was murdered on this date in 1955.

W. E. B. DuBois, editor author and civil rights leader died in Ghanaon this date in 1963.

Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia died on this date in 1975 at the age of 83. During his reign, Selassie’s main ambitions included the modernization of Ethiopia, international recognition for his nation, the abolishment of slavery, expanded eduacation and the elimination of foreign intervention.