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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Black History Every Day: January 30th
On this day in 1797, came the earliest Black petition to the U.S. Congress.
Also on this day in 1956, the home of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior and his wife, Coretta Scott King, was fire-bombed.