1929 - Collapse of stock market and the beginning of the Great Depression.

On this date in 1929, the stock market collapsed bringing on the beginning of the Great Depression. By 1937, 26 percent of Black males were unemployed.

Today's Other facts

1974 - Muhammad Ali regains world heavyweight boxing title.
1994 - Pearl Primus dies
1981 - William O. Walker, Publisher of Cleveland Call and Post newspaper, dies
1969 - U.S. Supreme Court said school systems must end segregation.
1947 - President's Committee on Civil Rights condemned racial injustices
1945 - Actress Melba Moore born
1924 - Dixie to Broadway, "the first real revue by
1923 - Runnin' Wild opened at Colonial Theater, Broadway

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