Afro-American Police Association-Buffalo

PO BOX 859
Buffalo, NY 14205

Today In History

February Is Black History Month

• In 1780- Capt. Paul Cuffe and six other African-American residents of Massachusetts petitioned the state legislature for the right to vote. Claiming "no taxation without representation," the residents had earlier refused to pay taxes. The courts agreed and awarded Cuffe and the six other defendants full civil rights.
• In 1995- Bernard A. Harris, Jr becomes first African American to walk in space

To Inspire You

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed

Booker T. Washington