Black History Community Nuggets
January 19th,1918
John H. Johnson, publisher of Ebony Magazine and Jet was born.
January 22nd, 1800
Nat Turner, leader of the Virginia Slave Revolt was born.
January 25th, 1851
Sojourner Truth addressed the first Black Women's Rights Convention.
January 28th, 1986
Astronaut, Ronald McNair died in Challenger Explosion in 1986.
February 1, 2011
Oprah Winfrey, Actress, Television Host, Producer was born.
February 10th, 1854
President of Livingston College, Joseph Chares Prince was born.
February 25th, 1948
Martin Luther Kings, Jr., ordained as a Baptist Minister.
March 16th, 1827
First Black Newspaper Freedom Journal published in 1827.
March 28th, 1799
Slavery abolished in New York.
April 2nd, 1855
John Mercer Langston, considered the first African American to be elected to public office is elected Clerk of Brownhelm, Ohio Township.
April 9th, 1866
Civil Rights Bill granting citizenship passed.
May, 1st, 1867
Howard University, named for General Oliver O. Howard opened.
June 11th, 1876
Two black students, escorted by Federalized National Guard Troops, enrolled at the University of Alabama despite the opposition of Governor George C. Wallace.
July 1st, 1870
James W. Smith of South Carolina, first black to entered West Point Academy.
August 13th, 1881
The first African American nursing school opens at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA.
September 9th, 1816
Kentucky abolitionist and founder of Berea College, John Gregg Fee was born.
September 20th, 1830
First Negro Convention of Free Men agreed to start their boycott on slave produced goods.
October 1st, 1872
Morgan State College was founded in Maryland.
November 23rd, 1775
Continental Congress approved resolution barring blacks from the US Army, 1775.
December 9th, 1867
Georgian Constitutional Convention, 3 blacks, 137 whites opened in Atlanta, GA 1867.
Community
Where would schools, churches, religious institutes, neighborhoods, and communities, be without the contributions of African American/Black greats such as Mary McLeod Bethune, Shirley Chisholm Andrew Young, Malcolm X, and Whitney Moore Young, Jr.?
In spite of much adversity, the humanitarian contributions by African American/Blacks to the United States have enabled millions to reach their dreams of freedom and equality. African American/Black advancements in education, politics as well as military have helped build America to the great nation that she is. Women such as Sherian Grace Cadoria, former Brigadier General, and Maxine Waters, former U.S. Representative have been influential in community, public health, employment and government.
Men such as Medgar W. Evers and Kweisi Mfume help shape the civil rights environment for the betterment of all people. Neither adversity nor dysfunction prohibited these gi-normous leaders from attaining a place of association and notoriety in the ranks of education, military, government and community.
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