Today in History - May 18

Educator and political leader Mary McLeod Bethune died at the age of eighty on May 18, 1955, in Daytona Beach, Florida.  Continue reading.

On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court ruled separate-but-equal facilities constitutional on intrastate railroads.  Continue reading.

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