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TIL that United Airlines suffered from a 10% fall of stock prices after Dave Carroll released the musicvideo “United Breaks Guitars”

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6EZjX TIL that James H. Dillard was a professor at Tulane University became the best-known and most-active white proponent for the education of blacks. In 1930, two historically black universities in New Orleans combined to form Dillard University, named in his honor.
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xWj0 TIL that when President Roosevelt visited The Pentagon in 1945 before its dedication he ordered them to remove the whites only signes and therefore making The Pentagon the only building in Virginia were segregation laws were not enforced until 1965.