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What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim

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Black History Month

• In 1923 - On this day Bessie Smith makes her first recording, "Down Hearted Blues," which sells 800,000 copies for Columbia Records
  
• In 1972 - Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBA player to reach 30,000 point plateau