February 16:
1857 Frederick Douglass elected President of Freedman
Bank and Trust.
1923 Bessie Smith makes her first recording, "Down Hearted Blues,"
which sells 800,000 copies for Columbia Records.
1951 New York City Council passed bill prohibiting
racial discrimination in city-assisted housing developments.
Friday, February 16, 2007
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