Today in Black History for December 20th Selected Black Facts for December 20 1. 1997 - Robert Duncanson Robert Duncanson, painter, suffered a severe mental breakdown and ended his life on this day in the Michigan State Retreat in Detroit. 2. 1986 - Max Robinson The first Black network anchor, Max Robinson, who joined ABCs World News Tonight died on this day of complication from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), in Washington, DC. 3. 1983 - Dr. J. Julius Erving scores his 25,000th career point, becoming the ninth professional basketball player to achieve this mark. 4. 1981 - Broadway Musical Premiere Two spectacular Black musicals premiered on Broadway in the 1980s, Dream Girls, which opened at the Imperial Theater on this day in 1981. 5. 1893 - Paul Lawrence Dunbar publishes Oak and Ivy. Paul Lawrence Dunbar publishes Oak and Ivy. 6. 1875 - birhtday, Carter G Woodson The father of Black history, Carter G Woodson was born, 1875 7. 1870 - Institutions Of Higher Learning Established Allen University, Benedict College and LeMoyne-Owen College established. 8. 1870 - Jefferson F. Long Jefferson F. Long of Macon, Ga., elected to an unexpired term in the Forty-first Congress. Georgia Democrats carried state election with a campaign of violence and political intimidation. 9. 1860 - Secession From the Union Southern states believed the election of Lincoln as president meant the end to slavery. Immediately after the election in Novembet 1860, several states began holding conventions and debate secession from the Union. Before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861, seven states had seceded fron the Union. South Carolina w... 10. 1860 - South Carolina secedes from the Union, beginning the rumbles that would become t South Carolina secedes from the Union, beginning the rumbles that would become the Civil War Continue To Celebrate Black History…. Today in Black History for December 21st Selected Black Facts for December 21 1. 1988 - African-American term is coined Jesse Jackson urges the use of the term African-American 2. 1976 - Spingarn Medal: Alvin Ailey Spingarn Medal presented to Alvin Ailey in recognition of his international pre-eminence in the field of dance. 3. 1959 - Citizens of Deerfield, Ill., authorized a plan Citizens of Deerfield, Ill., authorized a plan which blocked building of interracial housing development. 4. 1959 - The Starter of Motown Motown Records established by Berry Gordy Jr. 5. 1956 - Bus Boycott Ended When the bus boycott ended on this say, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. were national heros, and the Supreme Court had ruled that segregation on city buses was unconstitutional. 6. 1941 - Samuel L. Jackson Actor Samuel Jackson was born on this day in Washington, DC. Jackson will begin his acting career as a student at Morehouse College. He will star in over 40 movies including box office hits The Long Kiss Goodnight, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and A Time to Kill. 7. 1921 - The Negro Renaissance The Negro Renaissance, a period of extraordinary activity on the part of Black artists and extraordinary receptivity on the part of the white public, reached a peak in the twenties. Among the writers who contributed to the movement were Claude Mckay, Harlem Shadows, 1922; Jean Toomer, Cane, 1923; Alain Locke, The ... 8. 1874 - Proclamation on Violence President Grant issued proclamation on violence in Mississippi. 9. 1872 - Robert Scott Duncanson Robert Scott Duncanson, still life and landscape painter dies. 10. 1865 - Black Codes Issued in S.C. South Carolina issues one of the first set of black codes to regulate the relations of persons of color. Among the codes included those of illegal interracial marriages, master apprentice relations and service contracts. Continue To Embrace Black History….
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