GALLERY: Black History, 1983

By News One February 3, 2009 10:21 am

In the year 1983 Ronald Reagan established Martin Luther King’s birthday as a national holiday and Vanessa Williams is the first African-American woman to win the Miss America title! Check out the rest of 1983 here…

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RETURN to the CELEBRATE 44 MAIN PAGE

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