Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Floyd McKissick

Born: March 9, 1922
Died: April 28, 1991 (aged 69)
Bio: Floyd Bixler McKissick became the first African-American student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Law School. In 1966 he became leader of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, taking over from James L. Farmer, Jr.