* Today in Black History - February 6 * *********************************************************************** * "Once a year we go through the charade of February being 'Black * * History Month.' Black History Month needs to be a 12-MONTH THING. * * When we all learn about our history, about how much we've * * accomplished while being handicapped with RACISM, it can only * * inspire us to greater heights, knowing we're on the giant shoulders * * of our ANCESTORS." Subscribe to the Munirah Chronicle and receive * * Black Facts every day of the year. * * To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]> * * In the E-mail body place: Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name * *********************************************************************** 1810 - The Argentine national hero from Buenos Aires, Antonio Ruiz (El Negro Falucho), joins the ancestors, fighting for his country. 1820 - The first organized emigration back to Africa begins when 86 free African Americans leave New York Harbor aboard the Mayflower of Liberia. They are bound for the British colony of Sierra Leone, which welcomes free African Americans as well as fugitive slaves. 1820 - U.S. census announces the population at 9,638,453. African American population count is 1,771,656, 18.4% of the country. 1867 - The Anglo-American merchant George Peabody, founds the $ 2 million Peabody Education Fund. It is the first philanthropy established in the wake of the Civil War to promote free public education in 12 Civil War devastated southern states for whites and African Americans. The Peabody Fund will provide funding for construction, endowments, scholarships, teacher and industrial education for newly freed slaves. 1898 - Haywood Hall is born in South Omaha, Nebraska. After relocating to Minneapolis, Minnesota with his family, he will join the U.S. Army. He will serve with the 370th Infantry in France during World War I. Returning to Chicago, Illinois after the war, he will be active as a Black Nationalist, becoming a member of the African Blood Brotherhood and the Communist Party of the USA. In 1925, he will adopt the pseudonym, Harry Haywood. He will be a leading proponent of Black Nationalism, self-determination, and the idea that American Blacks are a colonized people who should organize themselves into a nation. From 1926 to 1930, he will study in the Soviet Union, where he will meet several anti-colonial revolutionaries, including Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh. On his return to the U.S. in 1931, he will be chosen to lead the Communist Party's Negro Department, and in 1934 will be elected a member of its politburo. The Spanish Civil War will take him to Spain in 1937, where he will fight in a volunteer Communist brigade against General Francisco Franco's fascist regime. During World War II, his belief in black self-determination and territorial autonomy will put him at odds with Communist Party policy, which had gravitated away from support for a Black nation in the American south. His agitation on "The Negro Question" led to his expulsion from the Party in 1959. He will remain in Chicago, supporting Black Nationalist movements such as the Nation of Islam. He will publish "Negro Liberation" (1948), a detailed analysis of the national character of Black oppression, particularly in the South. In his later years he will write his memoirs, "Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro- American Communist" (1978). Harry Haywood's greatest contribution will be his central role in developing a theoretical understanding of the Black nation in the United States. He will join the ancestors on January 4, 1985. 1898 - Melvin Beaunorus Tolson, author and educator, is born in Moberly, Missouri. Educated at Fisk, Lincoln, and Columbia Universities, his first volume of poetry, "Rendezvous with America," will be published in 1944. He will be best known for "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia," published in 1953. He will join the ancestors on August 29, 1966. 1931 - The Harlem Experimental Theatre Group performs its first play at St. Philips Parish House. The group's advisory board includes famed actress Rose McClendon, author Jesse Fauset, and Grace Nail. 1933 - Walter E. Fauntroy is born in Washington, DC. He will become a civil rights leader and minister. He will later become the non-voting delegate to the United States Congress for the District of Columbia from 1971 to 1991. In Congress, he will be a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus. He will chair the Caucus in 1981 and lead the organization in presenting, for the first time, a budget to be debated by the House. The "Constructive Alternative Budget" was debated on the House floor for two days. He will be a member of the House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee, chair for six years the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and for four years chair the Subcommittee on International Development, Finance, Trade and Monetary Policy. He will also chair, for fifteen years, the Bipartisan/Bicameral Task Force on Haiti. He will author the Black Leadership Family Plan For the Unity, Survival and Progress of Black People in 1982. The booklet will lay out a strategy for Black social, political, and economic development. On Thanksgiving Eve in 1984, he along with Randall Robinson and Mary Francis Berry will launch the Free South Africa Movement which will include their arrest for a sit in at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. 1945 - Robert Nesta Marley is born in St. Ann, Jamaica to Captain Norval and Cedella Marley. He will become a successful singer along with his group, The Wailers. Bob Marley and The Wailers were among the earliest to sing Reggae, a blend of Jamaican dance music and American Rhythm & Blues with a heavy dose of Rastafarianism, the Jamaican religion that blends Christian and African teachings. He will join the ancestors on May 11, 1981 at the age of 36, succumbing to cancer. As a result of his accomplishments, he will be awarded Jamaica's Order Of Merit, the nation's third highest honor, (April, 1981) in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the country's culture. He will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. 1950 - Natalie Maria Cole is born to Nat "King" and Maria Cole in Los Angeles, California. She will follow in her famous father's footsteps and become a recording star. She will become a Grammy Award-winning singer, and Best New Artist in 1975. She will attain musical success in the mid-1970s as a Rhythm & Blues artist with the hits "This Will Be", "Inseparable", and "Our Love". After a period of failing sales and performances due to a heavy drug addiction, She will reemerge as a pop artist with the 1987 album, "Everlasting," and her cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac". In the 1990s, she will re-record standards by her father, resulting in her biggest success, "Unforgettable... with Love," which will sell over seven million copies. She will join the ancestors on December 31, 2015, at the age of 65 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, after succumbing to congestive heart failure. 1956 - The University of Alabama suspends African American student Autherine Lucy, claiming that it can no longer provide for her safety. Riots will break out on the campus and a mob of more than a thousand men pelt the car in which the Dean of Women drove Lucy between classes. Threats are made against her life and the University president's home will be stoned. The police will be called to secure her attendance. These riots at the University will be, to date, the most violent, post-Brown, anti-integration demonstration. 1961 - The "jail-in" movement starts in Rock Hill, South Carolina, when arrested students demand to be jailed rather than pay fines. 1967 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Ernie Terrell in 15 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title. 1993 - Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in the first round for the heavyweight boxing title. 1993 - Arthur Ashe, tennis champion, joins the ancestors at the age of 49. He succumbs from complications of AIDS, contracted from a transfusion during a earlier heart surgery. 2015 - At the 46th NAACP Image Awards, "Selma" wins Outstanding Motion Picture award. ______________________________________________________________ Munirah Chronicle is edited by Mr. Rene' A. 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