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1864 - Saint Francis Xavier Church in Baltimore, Maryland is
dedicated.
It is the first
exclusively African American parish in the
United States.
1895 - The North Carolina Legislature adjourns for the day to
mark the
death of Frederick
Douglass.
1895 - William Henry Harrison Heard, African Methodist Episcopal
minister
& educator, is
named Minister Resident and Consul General to
Liberia by
President Grover Cleveland. He will serve until 1898.
1933 - Eunice Waymon (Nina Simone) is
born in Tryon, North Carolina.
She will begin her
entertaining career in 1954 and bolstered
by critical praise
for her 1959 recording of "I Loves You,
Porgy," she
will tour in the U.S. and Europe during the 1960's
and early 1970's.
Returning to the concert stage and recording
studio in 1977, she
will be called the "High Priestess of Soul."
She will record
rarely in the 1970's and 1980's, but will
experience a career
comeback in the United States with her 1993
album release,
"A Single Woman." She will join the ancestors in
Carry-le-Rouet (South of France) on April 21, 2003. As she wished,
her ashes will be
spread in different African countries.
1936 - Barbara Jordan is born in Houston, Texas. The first
African
American state
senator in the Texas legislature since 1883
and a three-term
congresswoman, she will play a key role in
the 1974 Watergate
hearings. In 1976, she will be the first
woman and first
African American to make a keynote speech
before the Democratic
National Convention. She will join the
ancestors on
January 17, 1996 in Austin, Texas.
1940 - John Lewis is born in Troy, Alabama. He will become
founder
and chairman of
SNCC, organizer of the Selma-to-Montgomery
March in 1965, executive director of
the Voter Education
Project, and
congressman from Georgia's 5th District. Lewis'
power will continue
to be felt when he is named Democratic
deputy whip by
Speaker of the House Thomas S. Foley in 1991.
1965 - El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) joins the ancestors
after
being assassinated
at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem at the
age of 39. He was
best known for his doctrine of
self-determination
for African American people, including
their right to
fight for their rights and protect themselves
in a hostile
America by "whatever means necessary."
1976 - Florence Ballard, one of the original Supremes, joins the
ancestors in
Detroit, Michigan, at the age of 32. Ballard
had said that she
never received a royalty check prior to
1967 for any of her
work with the Supremes, who featured
Diana Ross and
included Mary Wilson.
1982 - "Ain't Misbehavin'"
closes at the Longacre Theater in New York
City after 1,604
performances.
1998 - Julian Bond, civil rights leader from the 1960's, former
Georgia state
legislator, and college professor, becomes the
new chairperson of
the NAACP.
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The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
"Before the
Mayflower", "Black Firsts" and independent
research by Mr. Rene’ A. Perry, Sr.
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