TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Dec. 1, 1862

President Abraham Lincoln sent his Second Annual Message to Congress, in which he called for the abolition of slavery, and went on to say, “Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves.”

ON THIS DATE 1955

Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus; the incident sparked a year-long boycott of the buses by Blacks.

1969

The U.S. government held its first draft lottery since World War II.