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1810 - Charles Lenox Remond is born in Salem, Massachusetts to free
parents. He will become one of the most prominent of the
African American abolitionist crusaders. Charles Remond will
begin his activism in opposition to slavery while in his
twenties as an orator speaking at public gatherings and
conferences in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New York
and Pennsylvania. In 1838 the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery
Society, will choose him as one of its agents. As a delegate
from the American Anti-Slavery Society, he will go with William
Lloyd Garrison to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London
in 1840. He will have a reputation as an eloquent lecturer and
reported to be the first Black public speaker on abolition.
He will recruit Black soldiers in Massachusetts for the Union
Army during the Civil War, particularly for the famed 54th and
55th Massachusetts Infantry. He will also be active in recruiting
for the U.S. Colored Troops. After the Civil War ends, he will
work as a clerk in the Boston Customs House, and as a street lamp
inspector. He will later purchase a farm in South Reading (now
Wakefield), Massachusetts. He will join the ancestors on December
22, 1873.
1810 - The first insurance company managed by African Americans, the
American Insurance Company of Philadelphia, is established.
1833 - Henry McNeal Turner is born in Newberry Courthouse, South Carolina.
He will become one of the first Bishops in the African American
Episcopal Church. He will also be an army chaplain, political
organizer, magazine editor, and college chancellor. He will be
inspired by a Methodist revival and swear to become a pastor. In
1858, he will transfer his membership to the African Methodist
Church and study the classics, Hebrew and divinity at Trinity
College. During the American Civil War, he will be appointed a
Chaplain to one of the first Federal regiments of Black troops
(Company B of the First United States Colored Troops). He will be
the first of only 14 Black Chaplains to be appointed during the
Civil War. This appointment will come directly from President
Abraham Lincoln in 1863. He will also be appointed by President
Andrew Johnson to work with the Freedman's Bureau in Georgia during
Reconstruction. Following the Civil War, he will become steadily
more disenchanted with the lack of progress in the status of the
country's African Americans. During this time, he will move to the
state of Georgia. It is here that he will become involved in Radical
Republican politics. He will help found the Republican Party of
Georgia. After attempts to overcome certain Supreme Court decisions,
he will become disgusted and end his attempts to bring equality to
the United States. Instead, he will become a proponent of the "back
to Africa" and "African American colonization" movements. He will
travel to Africa and be impressed by the differences in the attitude
of Africans who have never known the degradation of slavery. He will
organize four annual conferences in Africa. In 1880, he will become a
bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He will write
extensively about the Civil war and about the condition of his
parishioners. He will be highly regarded in the Afro-American and the
Afro-Canadian community and a large number of churches will be named
in his honor. He will join the ancestors on May 8, 1915 while visiting
Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
1865 - John S. Rock becomes the first African American attorney allowed to
practice before the United States Supreme Court. Due to his poor health,
he never actually argued a case before the court, succumbing to
tuberculosis at the age of 41.
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln approves the Joint Resolution of Congress
submitting the proposed 13th amendment, abolishing slavery, to the state
legislatures for ratification.
1870 - Jonathan Jasper Wright is elected to the South Carolina Supreme Court.
He is the first African American to hold a major judicial position.
1871 - Jefferson Franklin Long, Republican congressman from Georgia, makes the
first speech by an African American on the floor of Congress. His text
is to oppose leniency to former Confederates.
1902 - Langston Hughes is born in Joplin, Missouri. He will be known as one of
the most prolific American poets of the 20th century and a leading voice
of the Harlem Renaissance. In addition to his poetry, Hughes will achieve
success as an anthologist and juvenile author, write plays and librettos,
found theater groups, and be a widely read columnist and humorist. Among
his honors will be the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1960. He will join the
ancestors on May 22, 1967.
1938 - Sherman Hemsley is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He will become an
actor and will known for his roles in the TV shows "All in the Family,"
"The Jeffersons," and "Amen." He will join the ancestors on July 24, 2012.
1948 - James Ambrose Johnson, Jr. is born in Buffalo, New York. He will become a
singer, songwriter, producer, and musician working under the name "Rick
James." He will be best known for his recording of "Super Freak" and
produce Teena Marie, the gold-certified Mary Jane Girls, Eddie Murphy, and
others. He will join the ancestors on August 6, 2004.
1957 - P.H. Young becomes the first African American pilot flying on an United
States scheduled passenger airline. Editor's Note: Young was hired to fly
for a regional airline. David A. Harris will be first African American
pilot hired by a major passenger airline, American Airlines (December 3,
1964).
1960 - Four African American college students from North Carolina A&T College in
Greensboro, North Carolina sit at a "whites-only" Woolworth's lunch counter
and refuse to leave when denied service, beginning a sit-in protest.
1963 - Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes a self-governing nation headed by Hastings
Banda.
1965 - More than seven hundred demonstrators, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
are arrested in Selma, Alabama.
1965 - Ruby Dee becomes the first African American thespian to play a major role at
the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut.
1978 - The first stamp of the United States Postal Service's Black Heritage USA
series honors Harriet Tubman, famed abolitionist and "conductor" on the
Underground Railroad. She is the first African American woman honored on a
U.S. postage stamp.
1981 - Duke Ellington's musical "Sophisticated Ladies," premieres in New York City.
1982 - The nations of Senegal & Gambia form a loose confederation named Senegambia.
1991 - President F.W. de Klerk of South Africa, states that he will repeal all
apartheid laws.
1992 - Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract to date ($4.7
million).
1997 - BET Holdings and Encore Media Corp. launch BET Movie/Starz, the first 24 hour
African American movie channel.
1998 - Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted
to Rear Admiral.
2003 - Lt. Colonel Michael P. Anderson, NASA astronaut, joins the ancestors at the
age of 43, when the Space Shuttle Columbia explodes during re-entry.
2003 - Ramon "Mongo" Santamaria, joins the ancestors in Miami, Florida from stroke
complications at the age of 85. He had been considered one of the most
influential percussionists of his generation.
2009 - At the 97th Women's Australian Open, Serena Williams defeats Dinara Safina
(6-0, 6-3) in 59 minutes to win the Women's Single title.
2012 - Don Cornelius, the founder of the "Soul Train" television show, joins the
ancestors, succumbing to an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head,
at the age of 75.
2013 - The Nigerian Army bombs a Boko Haram camp, killing 18 people.
2013 - At the 44th NAACP Image Awards, "Red Tails", a movie about the Tuskegee Airmen,
wins Outstanding Motion Picture Award.
2017 - The United States Postal Service honors Civil and Women's Rights legend Dorothy
Height with a Forever stamp. The dedication ceremony is held at Howard
University. This stamp is the 40th stamp in the Black Heritage series. She was
a tireless activist who dedicated her life to fighting for racial and gender
equality. She became one of the most influential civil and women's rights
leaders of the 20th century.
2018 - Temptations lead singer Dennis Edwards joins the ancestors at the age of 74, two
days shy of his 75th birthday.
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