Hey Family,
Did you know???...........
February 16
1857-Frederick Douglass, orator and activist, elected President of Freedman Bank and Trust.
1970- Joe Fraizer knocks out Jimmy Ellis to become world heavyweight champion.
February 17
1942-Huey Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party, born.
1982- Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist, dies, 1982
February 18 Gambia Independence Day
February 19
1919- WEB Dubois, activist, organizes the first Pan-African Congress.
February 20
1900- JF Pickering patents his airship invention.
1927- Sydney Poitier, actor, born.
February 21
1804- Lemuel Haynes, first Black minister to serve for a White congregation, becomes the first Black person to receivean honorary degree (an MA) from a White college (Middlebury College).
1965- Malcolm X, activist and Black nationalist, assassinated.
February 22 St. Lucia Independence Day
1967- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr, activist and chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, denied his congressional seat.
***List created by Charles L Isbell, Jr.http://www.seditionists.org/black***
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Showing posts with label World Black History. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Did you know? _ This Week in Black History
Hey Family,
Did you know???...........
February 16
1857-Frederick Douglass, orator and activist, elected President of Freedman Bank and Trust.
1970- Joe Fraizer knocks out Jimmy Ellis to become world heavyweight champion.
February 17
1942-Huey Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party, born.
1982- Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist, dies, 1982
February 18 Gambia Independence Day
February 19
1919- WEB Dubois, activist, organizes the first Pan-African Congress.
February 20
1900- JF Pickering patents his airship invention.
1927- Sydney Poitier, actor, born.
February 21
1804- Lemuel Haynes, first Black minister to serve for a White congregation, becomes the first Black person to receivean honorary degree (an MA) from a White college (Middlebury College).
1965- Malcolm X, activist and Black nationalist, assassinated.
February 22 St. Lucia Independence Day
1967- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr, activist and chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, denied his congressional seat.
***List created by Charles L Isbell, Jr.http://www.seditionists.org/black***
Did you know???...........
February 16
1857-Frederick Douglass, orator and activist, elected President of Freedman Bank and Trust.
1970- Joe Fraizer knocks out Jimmy Ellis to become world heavyweight champion.
February 17
1942-Huey Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party, born.
1982- Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist, dies, 1982
February 18 Gambia Independence Day
February 19
1919- WEB Dubois, activist, organizes the first Pan-African Congress.
February 20
1900- JF Pickering patents his airship invention.
1927- Sydney Poitier, actor, born.
February 21
1804- Lemuel Haynes, first Black minister to serve for a White congregation, becomes the first Black person to receivean honorary degree (an MA) from a White college (Middlebury College).
1965- Malcolm X, activist and Black nationalist, assassinated.
February 22 St. Lucia Independence Day
1967- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr, activist and chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, denied his congressional seat.
***List created by Charles L Isbell, Jr.http://www.seditionists.org/black***
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Did you know??_ This Week in Black History
February 2, 1914-Ernest E Just, biologist, receives the Spingarn Medal for pioneering research on fertilization and cell division, 1914
February 3,
1870 -The 15th Amendment, providing for Black suffrage, ratified.
1903- Jack Johnson, first Black heavyweight champion, wins the "Negro Heavyweight Title"
1956- Autherine Lucy becomes the first Black student at University of Alabama,
1965- Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture,
February 4
1864- The 24th Amendment, abolishing the poll tax, ratified.
1913- Rosa Parks, initiator of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, born,
February 5
1934- Henry "Hank" Aaron, the home run king of major league baseball, born
1994- Avowed White supremacist Byron de le Beckwith is convicted of Medger Evers' murder, more than thirty years after he was shot in the back from ambush,
February 6
1820- First organized emigration of U.S. Blacks back to Africa, from New York to Sierra leone, takes place.
1867- The Peabody Fund is established to promote Black education in the South,
1945-Bob Marley, reggae god, born.
1993- Arthur Ashe, first Black male to win Wimbledon, dies.
February 7- Grenada Independence Day
1883-Eubie Blake, pianist, born in Baltimore,
1945-Irwin C Mollison appointed judge of the US Customs Court by President Truman.
February 8
1968-Three South Carolina State students are killed during segregation protests in Orangeburg.
February 3,
1870 -The 15th Amendment, providing for Black suffrage, ratified.
1903- Jack Johnson, first Black heavyweight champion, wins the "Negro Heavyweight Title"
1956- Autherine Lucy becomes the first Black student at University of Alabama,
1965- Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture,
February 4
1864- The 24th Amendment, abolishing the poll tax, ratified.
1913- Rosa Parks, initiator of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, born,
February 5
1934- Henry "Hank" Aaron, the home run king of major league baseball, born
1994- Avowed White supremacist Byron de le Beckwith is convicted of Medger Evers' murder, more than thirty years after he was shot in the back from ambush,
February 6
1820- First organized emigration of U.S. Blacks back to Africa, from New York to Sierra leone, takes place.
1867- The Peabody Fund is established to promote Black education in the South,
1945-Bob Marley, reggae god, born.
1993- Arthur Ashe, first Black male to win Wimbledon, dies.
February 7- Grenada Independence Day
1883-Eubie Blake, pianist, born in Baltimore,
1945-Irwin C Mollison appointed judge of the US Customs Court by President Truman.
February 8
1968-Three South Carolina State students are killed during segregation protests in Orangeburg.
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