*                 Today in Black History - December 29                *

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* The Nguzo Saba - The seven principles of Kwanzaa - Principle for    *
* Day #4 - Ujamaa (oo-JAH-mah) Cooperative Economics: To build and    *
* maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit   *
* from them.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa                    *
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1907 - Robert Clifton Weaver is born in Washington, DC. He will become an 
	economist, academic, and political administrator. He will serve 
	as the first United States Secretary of Housing and Urban 
	Development (H.U.D.) from 1966 to 1968, in the new agency 
	established in 1965 under President Lyndon B. Johnson. He will 
	be the first African American to be appointed to a US cabinet-
	level position. Prior to his appointment as cabinet officer, he
	will serve in the administration of President John F. Kennedy. 
	In addition, he will serve in New York State government, and in 
	high-level positions in New York City. During the Franklin D. 
	Roosevelt administration, he will be one of 45 prominent African 
	Americans appointed to positions and help make up the Black 
	Cabinet, an informal group of African American public policy 
	advisers. He will direct federal programs during the 
	administration of the New Deal, at the same time completing his 
	doctorate in economics in 1934 at Harvard University. He will 
	join the ancestors on July 17, 1997.

1917 - Thomas J. Bradley is born in Calvert, Texas. He will become a 
	police officer in Los Angeles, California in 1940 and will 
	retire with the rank of Lieutenant. He will attend Southwestern 
	University Law School while a police officer and begin his 
	practice as a lawyer when he retires from the police department. 
	He will become a successful politician and will be elected as the 
	first African American mayor of Los Angeles by winning 56% of 
	the vote. He will serve as mayor for twenty years (five terms). 
	He will join the ancestors on September 29, 1998.

1925 - At 67, Anna Julia Cooper receives her doctorate from the 
	University of Paris. Officials of the French Embassy present
	the degree to her at ceremonies at Howard University. She
	had been a noted college and secondary school educator and will
	continue to teach and work for educational improvement for
	African Americans until her transition at the age of 105.

1939 - Kelly Miller joins the ancestors in Washington, DC. The first 
	African American to be admitted to Johns Hopkins University (In 
	1887), and later a longtime professor and dean at Howard 
	University, Miller was a noted writer, essayist, and newspaper 
	columnist who opposed the accommodations policies of Booker T. 
	Washington. He was best known, however, as a champion for 
	educational development for African Americans, dramatically 
	increasing enrollment at Howard and founding a "Negro-Americana 
	Museum and Library," which will become Howard's Moorland-
	Spingarn Research Center.

1952 - Noted jazz bandleader Fletcher Henderson joins the ancestors in 
	New York City. Henderson worked early in his career with Harry 
	Pace of Black Swan Records as a recording manager and, in 1924, 
	started playing at the Roseland Ballroom, the same year he 
	added New Orleans trumpeteer Louis Armstrong to the band.  
	Armstrong's short tenure helped it evolve from a dance to a 
	jazz band and established Henderson as the founding father of 
	the big band movement in jazz.

1954 - The Kingdom of the Netherlands, with Netherlands & Netherlands 
	Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being.

1982 - Jamaica issues a postage stamp to honor Bob Marley.

2008 - Jazz trumpeter, Freddie Hubbard, joins the ancestors after
	succumbing to complications caused by a heart attack he suffered 
	on November 26, at the age of 70.

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