On This Day in Black History: December 31 1767 Denmark Vesey, who planned a large scale slave revolt only to be betrayed by a house slave, was born in St. Thomas, Danish West Indies. 1775 Alarmed by the response of free blacks To Lord Dunmores proclamation of November 7, George Washington reversed his previous decision and ordered recruiting officers to accept free blacks into the army. 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed an agreement with Bernard Kock, promoter and self-styled Governor of AVache Island, to establish a colony of freedmen on Ile à Vache, a dependency of Haiti. 1896 Amy Jacques Garvey, journalist, pan-Africanist and second wife of Marcus Garvey, was born. 1900 There were a lot of people in Washington who tried to help me...so they say, but there were enogh people who knew I did it.Birth of Selma Burke, sculptor who created the portrait of President Roosevelt on the dime. After winning a nation-wide competition, President Roosevelt posed for the artist and she created the bronze plaque commemorating President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Four Freedoms which resides in the Recorder of Deeds Building in Washington D.C. Selma Burke has never received proper credit for the portrait used on the dime, as the initials were that of the engraver, John Sinnock.. 1953 Hulan Jack was sworn in as Manhattan Borough President. It was the highest municipal office held by an African-American at the time. 1953 There were a lot of people in Washington who tried to help me...so they say, but there were enough people who knew I did it.: Birth of Selma Burke, sculptor who created the portrait of President Roosevelt on the dime. After winning a competition sponsored by the Fine Arts Commission for the District of Columbia, President Roosevelt posed for the artist and she created the bronze plaque commemorating President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Four Freedoms which resides in the Recorder of Deeds Building in Washington D.C. Selma Burke has never received proper credit for the portrait used on the dime, as the initials on the coin were those of the engraver, John Sinnock. 1963 The Central African Federation was formally dissolved and divided into Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia. 1977 Donald Woods, newspaper editor and anti-apartheid activist, flees South Africa. He befriended Steve Biko, the black consciousness leader who was killed by South African security forces while in detention, and wrote the biography of Steve Bikos life and death which exposed the horrors of apartheid to the world. 1980 Léopold Sédar Senghor resigned after 20 years as Senegalese president. 1981 In Ghana, Flight-Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings staged his second successful coup in two years, toppling the civilian government of president Hilla Limann. 1983 The civilian government of Nigerian President Shehu Shagari is overthrown in a military coup by Major-General Muhammadu Buhari 1984 Malcolm X, speaking at the Hotel Theresa to an audience including 37 outstanding teenagers in the civil rights struggle in Mc Comb, Mississippi, admonishes them to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself...This generation, especially of our people, has a burden, more so than any other time in history. The most important thing we can learn to do today is think for ourselves. 1987 Robert Mugabe was sworn in as Zimbabwes first executive president.
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