Today in Black History for December 30th Selected Black Facts for December 30 1. 1960 - Two U.S. courts issued temporary injunctions to Two U.S. courts issued temporary injunctions to prevent eviction of about seven hundred Black sharecroppers in Haywood and Fayetter counties, Tennessee. 2. 1960 - Spingarn Medal :Langston Huges Poet Langston Hughes presented Spingarn Medal and cited as the poet laureate of the Negro race. 3. 1929 - Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporated. 4. 1929 - Spingarn Award: Mordecai W. Johnson Mordecai W. Johnson received Spingarn Medal for his work as the first Black president of Howard University. 5. 1929 - A Chicago Picketing Dont Buy Where You Cant Work campaign began in Chicago with picketing of Chain stores on South Side, fall. The campaign spread to New York, Cleveland, Los Angeles and other cities and continued throughout the Depression. 6. 1928 - Bo Diddleys birthday. Rhythm & blues singer and guitarist Bo Diddley was born Ellas Bates near McComb, MS, USA. 7. 1928 - Blues composer and singer Bo Didley is born in Magnolia ,Missippi. Blues composer and singer Bo Didley is born in Magnolia ,Missippi. 8. 1928 - Bo Diddley is born. Bo Diddley was born Ellas Bates on Sunday December 30th 1928 on a small farm near the town of McComb, Mississippi, USA, in rural Pike County, close to the Louisiana border, the only child of Ethel Wilson and Eugene Bates. He had 3 half-brothers and a half-sister. He was adopted by his mothers cousin, Mrs. Gussie M... 9. 1892 - Physician, Dr Miles V Lynk, publishes the first Black medical journal, 1892 Physician, Dr Miles V Lynk, publishes the first Black medical journal, 1892 10. 1842 - Josiah T. Walls Born on this day in Winchester, VA, Josiah T. Walls was elected to the U.S. Congress for the state of Florida. Continue To Embrace Black History….
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