Second Day of Kwanzaa Kujichagulia (Self-Determination)

On this date in 1956, Federal Judge Dozier Devane granted temporary injunction restraining city officials from interfering with integration of Tallahassee, Fla., city buses and said “every segregation act of every state or city is as dead as a doornail.”

On this date in 1956, the Spingarn Medal awarded Jack Roosevelt (“Jackie”) Robinson, first Black in the major leagues, for his conduct on and off the baseball field.

ON this date in 1941, Pioneer of blood plasma research, Dr Charles Richard Drew, establishes a pioneer blood bank in New York City.

On this date in 1939, John Amos, actor, made famous in “Good Times” television program was born.

On this date in 1904, Monroe Nathan Work marries Florence Evelyn Hendrickson. Greatly assisted by his wife, Work would publish “The Negro Year Book”, and annual encyclopedia of African American achievement. He will later publish “A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and American” (1928) with over 17,000 entries.

On this date in 1892, Livingstone and Biddle College (now Johnson C. Smith) play the first African American intercollegiate football game.

On this date in 1873, William A. Harper, student of Henry O. Tanner at the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the most gifted African American artist of the early 20th century was born