*                 Today in Black History - December 30                *

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* The Nguzo Saba - The seven principles of Kwanzaa - Principle for    *
* Day #5 -  Nia (nee-AH) Purpose: To make as our collective vocation  *
* the building and developing of our community in order to restore    *
* our people to their traditional greatness.                          *
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa                                *
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1842 - Josiah T. Walls is born a slave near Winchester, Virginia. After
	serving in the Confederate army and the U.S. Colored Troops
	during the Civil War, he will become a United States Congressman 
	and serve three separate terms in Congress between 1871 and 1876. 
	He will become one of the first African Americans in the United 
	States Congress elected during the Reconstruction Era, and the 
	first black to be elected to Congress from Florida. He will also 
	serve four terms in the Florida Senate.	After leaving politics, 
	he will operate a successful farm in Alachua County until the 
	disastrous freeze of 1894-95, which will destroy his crops. He 
	will then take a teaching position as Farm Director at Florida 
	A&M University, a historically black college in Tallahassee. 
	After nearly a decade there, he will join the ancestors on May 
	15, 1905.

1892 - Physician, Dr. Miles V. Lynk, publishes the first African 
	American medical journal. 

1916 - Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard, of Brown University, becomes 
	the first African American running back named to the All-American 
	team.

1928 - Ellas Otha Bates McDaniel is born in Magnolia, Mississippi. Better
	known as Bo Diddley, he will influence a generation of musicians
	including such groups as the Rolling Stones and the Doors. A 
	favorite of President John F. Kennedy, who invited him to play 
	in the White House in 1962, he will be inducted into the Rock 'n' 
	Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. He will join the ancestors on June 2, 
	2008.

1929 - The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is incorporated.

1929 - The "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work" campaign begins in Chicago 
	with picketing of chain stores on the South Side. The campaign 
	spread to New York, Cleveland, Los Angeles and other cities and
	continued throughout the Depression.

1929 - Mordecai W. Johnson receives the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for his 
	work as the first African American president of Howard
	University.

1935 - Marian Anderson makes a historic appearance in New York City's
	Town Hall. Fresh from a triumphant tour in Europe, Anderson
	will be hailed by New York critics as one of the "great singers
	of our time." Her performance will mark a new era in the 
	Philadelphian's long and successful career. Her performance is 
	described by Howard Taubman, the New York Times reviewer, as 
	"music-making that probed too deep for words."

1952 - Tuskegee Institute reports there were no lynchings during the 
	year for the first time in the 71 years it has been keeping such 
	records.

1960 - Poet Langston Hughes is presented the NAACP's Spingarn Medal and 
	cited as "the poet laureate of the Negro race."

1960 - Two U.S. courts issues temporary injunctions to prevent eviction 
	of about seven hundred African American sharecroppers in Haywood
	and Fayette counties, Tennessee.

1961 - Ben Johnson is born in Falmouth, Jamaica. He will become a world
	class 100 meter runner. He win the Olympic gold medal in 1988 
	and will be later disqualified for using steroids.

1975 - The constitution of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes 
	into effect.

1975 - Eldrick 'Tiger' Woods is born in Cypress, California. He will
	become the first African American or Asian American to win the 
	Masters Golf tournament. He will accomplish this feat in his 
	first year on the PGA tour at the age of 21 also making him the 
	youngest person to win the Masters tournament.

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