To Inspire You

...but now the time has come for man to experiment with nonviolence in all areas of human conflict, and that means nonviolence on an international scale.

Martin Luther King, Jr. »

Today In History

• In 1885 - Samuel David Ferguson consecrated bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church and named bishop of Liberia. He was the first Black American with full membership in the House of Bishops
  
• In 1884 - John R. Lynch, former congressman from Mississippi, elected temporary chairman of Republican convention and became first Black to preside over deliberations of a national political party