Black History Facts for Today by Yenoba.com

November 7
Elijah P. Lovejoy, a white newspaperman, was killed while defending his newspaper, the Alton Observer, from a pro-slavery mob in Alton, IL, on this date in 1837.

Arthur Wergs Mitchell defeated his Republican opponent, Oscar DePriest, in a Chicago election, becoming the first black Democratic Congressman on this date in 1934.

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