Actor Denzel Washington was born on this day in Mount Vernon, NY. Washington will star in such films as “Malcolm X”, “Glory”, “Much Ado about Nothing”, and ” A Soldier’s Story”. He will have a start in television in his role on popular show “St. Elsewhere”.
Third Day of Kwanzaa – Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility)
ON this date in 1977, Karen Farmer becomes the first African American member of the Daughters of the American Revolution when she traces her ancestry back to William Hood, a solider in the Revolutionary War.
On this date in 1918, George H. White (66) last of the post Reconstruction congressman, Philadelphia dies.
ON this date in 1918, Sixty Blacks were reported lynched.
ON this date in 1918, Spingarn Medal awarded to William Stanley Braithwaite, poet, literary critic and editor, for distinguished achievement in literature.
On this date in 1905, Famed jazz musician and father of modern jazz piano, Earl “Fatha” Hines was born
On this date in 1897, C. V. Rickey, patents Fire Escape Bracket, Patent No. 596,427
On this date in 1829, Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, dies. Born into slavery, she ran away form her owners after mistreatment by her master’s wife. She petitioned successfully for her freedom, citing her knowledge of the Bill of Rights and the new constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in her argument that all men were created equal.
On this date in 1816, the American Colonization Society was organized in hall of the House of Representatives.
