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Black History Today for February 18th:

1688- First formal protest against slavery by organized white body in English America made by Germantown (Pa.) Quakers at monthly meeting. The historic “Germantown Protest” denounced slavery and the slave trade.

1865- Rebels abandoned Charleston, SC. First Union troops to enter the city included Twenty-first U. S. C. T.; followed by two companies of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers.

1867- An institution was founded at Augusta, GA which was later to become Morehouse College, following its relocation to Atlanta. Morehouse College is one of the most prestigious historical black colleges in the nation.

1894- Paul Revere Williams, renowned architect, born

1896- H. Grenon patents razor stropping device on this day.

1931- On this day, Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford), who will win the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved, is born in Lorain, OH.

1973- Palmer Hayden, Harlem Renaissance artist, dies.

(Information courtesy of blackfacts.com)