Black History Facts for Today by Yenoba.com

June 12
Barbara C. Harris, the first woman Bishop in the Episcopal Church, was born in Philadelphia, PA, on this date in 1930.

Medgar Evers, civil rights activist and the NAACP's first Field Secretary in the state of Mississippi, was assassinated at his Jackson, MS, residence on this date in 1963.

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