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February 24, 2026

A.M.E. Bishop Daniel Payne, first Black president of a Black college (Wilberforce), is born on this date in 1811 in Charleston, SC.

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POSTED: January 21, 2013, 8:00 am

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The American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) documentary on the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike; the last advocacy campaign of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in April 1968.





Source: AFSCME

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