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On This Day In Black History: February 18

Published on February 18, 2017

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1688

First formal protest against slavery by organized white body in English America made by Germantown (Pa.) Quakers at monthly meeting. The historic “Germantown Protest” denounced slavery and the slave trade.

2006

Shani Davis ~ (speed skater) becomes the first Black to be awarded with an individual gold medal in the Winter Olympics

1931

Toni Morrison ~ (writer) is born in Lorian, Ohio. She was the first Black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature

On This Day In Black History: February 18  was originally published on praisecharlotte.com

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