* Today in Black History - December 19 *
1798 - Portrait painter Joshua Johnston places an ad in the
"Baltimore Intelligencer" describing himself as "a self-
taught genius." Johnston, a freeman, will paint portraits
of some of the most successful merchant families in
Maryland and Virginia. Only three of his subjects will
be African American, among them "Portrait of an Unknown
Man" and "Reverend Daniel Coker."
1875 - Carter Godwin Woodson is born in New Canton, Virginia. A
founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life
and History, of the "Journal of Negro History," and Negro
History Week, Woodson will write many books on African
American history. The most popular of his books will be,
"The Negro in Our History," which will be used extensively
in high schools throughout the United States. He will join
the ancestors on April 3, 1950.
1886 - Clementine Rubin (later Hunter) is born in Clourtierville,
Louisiana. Because there were no birth certificates
issued in rural Louisiana during this time, there is much
controversy about her exact date of birth. Sources mention
her birth in December 1886 and January 1887. The only
real documentation of her earliest existence is a
christening document dated March, 1887. She will become a
painter in the 1930's after spending years working on the
Melrose Plantation, a haven for many rural Southern artists.
Her first artistic medium will be quilt making, and her
first piece will be in 1938 exhibiting the hardships of
plantation life. Her first painting will be completed in
1939. In 1955, she will become the first African American
artist to have a one person show at the Delgado Museum (now
known as the New Orleans Museum of Art). Her folk-art style
will earn her the nickname "the Black Grandma Moses." By the
time she joins the ancestors on January 1, 1988, she will be
considered one of the twentieth century's leading folk artists.
1891 - Charles Randolph Uncles becomes the first African American
Catholic priest ordained in the United States. He is ordained
in Baltimore, Maryland.
1910 - The first city ordinance requiring white and black residential
areas is passed by the Baltimore City Council. Similar laws
will be passed in Norfolk, Richmond, Roanoke, Greensboro, St.
Louis, Oklahoma City, Dallas and Louisville.
1910 - The Pittsburgh Courier newspaper is founded.
1910 - North Carolina College is founded in Durham, North Carolina.
1910 - The Norfolk Journal and Guide is established under the leadership
of P. B. Young Sr.
1930 - James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
citing health reasons.
1930 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is awarded to Henry A. Hunt, Principal,
Fort Valley High and Industrial School, Fort Valley, Georgia, for
his pioneering work as an educator.
1930 - Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, founded at Howard University in
1913, is incorporated.
1933 - Cicely Tyson is born in the Village of Harlem in New York
City. She will pursue a modeling career, appearing on the
covers of both "Vogue" and "Harper's Bazaar at the age of
23. She will later pursue acting and win acclaim for her
roles on the stage and on television, as well as in the
movie, "Sounder" (for which she will be named best actress
by the National Society of Film Critics and receive an
Academy Award nomination) and "The Autobiography of Miss
Jane Pittman," for which she will win two Emmys.
1941 - Maurice White is born in Memphis, Tennessee. He will become
a singer, musician (drummer) and founder of Earth, Wind &
Fire. Some of his hits include "Shining Star," "Sing a Song,"
"Got to Get You into My Life," "After the Love Has Gone," and
"Best of My Love". He will win seven Grammys, and be nominated
for 21 Grammys in total. He will be inducted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame as a member
of Earth, Wind & Fire, and also individually inducted into the
Songwriters Hall of Fame. Also known by his nickname Reese, he
will work with several famous recording artists such as Deniece
Williams, The Emotions, Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond. He
will be diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in the late 1980s,
which will lead him to eventually stop touring with Earth, Wind &
Fire in 1994. However, he will retain executive control of the
band, and remain active in the music business. He will join
the ancestors on February 4, 2016.
1944 - Timothy L."Tim" Reid is born in Norfolk, Virginia. He will become
a comedian and be best known for his roles in prime time American
television programs, such as Venus Flytrap on WKRP in Cincinnati
(1978-82), Marcel "Downtown" Brown on Simon & Simon (1983-87),
Ray Campbell on Sister, Sister (1994-99) and William Barnett on
That '70s Show (2004-2006). He will star in a CBS series, Frank's
Place, as a professor who inherits a Louisiana restaurant. In 1988,
the same role will earn him an Image Award for "Outstanding Lead
Actor in a Comedy Series".
1961 - Reginald Howard "Reggie" White is born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
He will become an all-pro defensive lineman for the NFL
Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers. He will play with
Green Bay as they win the 1997 Super Bowl. He will hold the NFL
record of 198 sacks until it is broken by Bruce Smith of the
Washington Redskins in 2003. He will retire from football at the
end of the 1998-1999 season. He will join the ancestors on December
26, 2004, after succumbing to a cardiac arrhythmia caused by cardiac
and pulmonary sarcoidosis.
1962 - Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia.
1989 - Police in Jacksonville, Florida, disarm a parcel bomb at the
local NAACP office, the fourth in a series of mail bombs to
turn up in the Deep South. One bomb kills a Savannah,
Georgia, alderman, and another a federal judge in Alabama.
Walter L. Moody Jr. will be convicted in both bombings.
1997 - Jimmy Rogers (born Jay Arthur Lane), a bluesman who played guitar
for the original Muddy Waters band and who will be inducted into
the Blues Hall of Fame in 1995, joins the ancestors in Chicago at
the age of 73, after succumbing to colon cancer. He recorded a
string of solo hits beginning in the 1950s, including "Walking by
Myself," "Chicago Bound" and "Sloppy Drunk." He played with Water's
Band in Chicago clubs and in the studio for about a decade. In 1996,
he won the W.C. Handy award for male traditional blues artist.
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