September 18, 1850 Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing slave owners to reclaim slaves who escaped into another state, and levying harsh penalties on those who would interfere with the apprehension of runaway slaves.  As part of the Compromise of 1850, it offered federal officers a fee for each captured slave and denied the slaves the right to a jury trial. about the Fugitive Slave Act The Compromise of 1850 |
| September 18, 1895 African-American educator (founder of the Tuskegee Institute) and leader (born a slave) Booker T. Washington spoke before a predominantly white audience at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. Although the organizers of the exposition worried that “public sentiment was not prepared for such an advanced step,” they decided that inviting a black speaker would impress Northern visitors with the evidence of racial progress in the South. Washington, in his “Atlanta Compromise” address, soothed his listeners’ concerns about “uppity” blacks by claiming that his race would content itself with living “by the productions of our hands.” Text of the speech |
| September 18, 1961 Earl Bertrand Russell and Lady Edith Russell were released from prison after serving one week of their two-month sentences. They had been part of a Hiroshima Day vigil in Hyde Park, and were accused of inciting civil disobedience.  Bertrand and Edith Russell after being released from prison. |
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