* Today in Black History - December 8 *
1850 - The first African American woman to graduate from
college is Lucy Ann Stanton. She completes the two-year
ladies' course and receives the Bachelor of Literature
degree from Oberlin College in Ohio.
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln issues his Proclamation on
Amnesty and Reconstruction for the restoration of the
Confederate states into the Union. He offers them a full
pardon and restoration of their rights if they are
willing to take an oath of loyalty to the Union and
accept the end of slavery.
1868 - Henry Hugh Proctor is born near Fayetteville, Tennessee.
He will receive his degree from Fisk University,
graduating in 1891. In 1894, he will receive a Bachelor of
Divinity degree from Yale University and be ordained into
the Congregational ministry. He will become pastor of the
First Congregational Church in Atlanta. In 1903, He will
join George Washington Henderson, president of Straight
University, a black college in New Orleans, Louisiana, to
found the National Convention of Congregational Workers
Among Colored People, and he will become its first president.
In 1904, Clark University will award him a Doctor of Divinity
degree. After the Atlanta Race Riot in 1906, he and a white
attorney will work together to quell remaining tensions and
form the Interracial Committee of Atlanta. In the church,
he will provide amenities lacking to blacks such as a
library, a kindergarten, an employment bureau, a gymnasium, a
ladies' reading parlor, a music room, counseling services and
a model kitchen and sewing room for girls. He will also help
open the first housing facility for young employed black
women. He will be a strong believer in self-improvement. He
will also found the Atlanta Colored Music Festival
Association, with concerts attended by both races, segregated
but under one roof, believing that music could quell racial
animosity. This festival continues to the present day as the
Atlanta Music Festival. In 1919, he will minister to the
black American troops remaining in Europe. Afterwards he will
lead the Nazarene Congregational Church in Brooklyn, New York,
the place where he will live the rest of his life. He will
join the ancestors on May 12, 1933 in New York City, after
succumbing to blood poisoning.
1873 - The National Equal Rights Convention adopts a resolution to
include African Americans.
1896 - J.T. White patents the lemon squeezer.
1925 - Samuel George "Sammy" Davis Jr. is born in New York City. He will
begin his career at the age of four in vaudeville, performing
with his father. Sammy will star on Broadway in "Mr. Wonderful"
and in movies with "Porgy and Bess", "Ocean's Eleven," and "Robin
and the Seven Hoods." He will release over 40 albums and will
win many gold records. He will be awarded the Spingarn Medal by
the NAACP and nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy
Award for his television performances. He will be the recipient
of the Kennedy Center Honors in 1987, and in 2001, he will be
posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He
will join the ancestors on May 16, 1990 after succumbing to throat
cancer.
1925 - James Oscar "Jimmy" Smith is born in Norristown, Pennsylvania. He
will become a modern jazz organist with hits such as "Walk on the
Wild Side." He will rule the Hammond organ in the '50s and '60s.
He will revolutionize the instrument, showing it could be
creatively used in a jazz context and popularized in the process.
His Blue Note sessions from 1956 to 1963 were extremely influential.
He will tour extensively through the '60s and '70s. His Blue Note
recordings will include superb collaborations with Kenny Burrell,
Lee Morgan, Lou Donaldson, Tina Brooks, Jackie McLean, Ike Quebec
and Stanley Turrentine among others. He will join the ancestors on
February 8, 2005.
1933 - Clerow Wilson is born in Jersey City, New Jersey. "Flip" Wilson is
the tenth in a family of twenty-four children, eighteen of whom
survived. He will become a popular comedian and will star in his own
prime time comedy show on television, "The Flip Wilson Show." He
will join the ancestors on November 25, 1998.
1936 - "Gibbs vs The Board of Education" in Montgomery County, Maryland is
the first of a succession of suits initiated by the NAACP, that
eliminates wage differentials between African American and white
teachers.
1936 - "The Michigan Chronicle" is founded by Louis E. Martin.
1936 - The Spingarn Medal is presented to John Hope, posthumously, for his
achievement as president of Morehouse College and for his creative
leadership in the founding of the Atlanta University Center.
1939 - Jerry Butler, Jr. is born in Sunflower, Mississippi. He will become
a rhythm and blues singer with his group, The Impressions and will be
best known for his songs, "Never Give You Up", "For Your Precious
Love," "He Will Break Your Heart," and "Only the Strong Survive." He
will become involved in the election of Chicago's first African
American mayor, Harold Washington, work as Cook County Commissioner
and will serve as a Chicago City Alderman.
1962 - The Reverend John Melville Burgess is consecrated as suffragan Bishop
of Massachusetts -- the first African American bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal Church to serve a predominantly white diocese.
1967 - Major Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., the first African American astronaut,
joins the ancestors when his F-104 Starfighter crashes at Edwards Air
Force Base in California's Mojave Desert.
1972 - Representative George Collins joins the ancestors in an airplane crash,
near Midway Airport in Chicago, Illinois, at the age of 47.
1972 - Attorney Jewel Lafontant is named Deputy Solicitor General of the United
States.
1977 - Earl Campbell, a running back with the University of Texas, is awarded
the Heisman Trophy. Campbell will play for the Houston Oilers and be
elected to the Football Hall of Fame in 1990.
1983 - Mike Rozier, of the University of Nebraska, is awarded the Heisman Trophy.
1987 - Kurt Lidell Schmoke is inaugurated as the first African American mayor of
Baltimore, Maryland.
1988 - Barry Sanders, a running back with Oklahoma State University, is awarded the
Heisman Trophy.
1991 - Tap dancing legends Fayard and Harold Nicholas and six others receive Kennedy
Center Honors in Washington, DC.
1998 - Nkem Chukwu, a Nigerian American, delivers Ebuka, the first of eight children
at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas. In what doctors consider a
medical first, the other seven siblings will be delivered on December 20. Only
seven will survive.
1999 - A Memphis, Tennessee jury hearing a lawsuit filed by the Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr.'s family, finds that the civil rights leader had been the victim of a vast
murder conspiracy, not a lone assassin.
______________________________________________________________
Munirah Chronicle is edited by Mr. Rene' A. Perry
"The TRUTH shall make you free"
E-mail: <[log in to unmask]>
Archives: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html
http://blackagenda.com/cybercolonies/index.htm
_____________________________________________________________
To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]>
In the E-mail body place: Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name
______________________________________________________________
Munirah(TM) is a trademark of Information Man. Copyright 1997 - 2016,
All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with
The Black Agenda.
|
