Today in OUR Story - December 18 * 1852 - George H. White is born in Rosindale, North Carolina. He will become a lawyer, state legislator, and in 1896, the only African American member of the United States House of Representatives, where he will be the first to introduce an anti-lynching bill. White will also found the town of Whitesboro, New Jersey, as a haven for African Americans escaping southern racism. He will join the ancestors on December 28, 1918. 1860 - South Carolina declares itself an independent commonwealth. 1865 - Congress proclaims the ratification of the thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery. The ratification process had been completed on December 6, 1865. 1917 - Raiford Chatman Ossie Davis is born in Cogdell, Georgia. While he will be best known as an actor in such plays as Jeb (where he will meet his wife, Ruby Dee) and Purlie Victorious and films like Lets Do It Again, Do The Right Thing, and Jungle Fever, he will be a playwright, screenwriter, and director(Cotton Comes to Harlem). In 1969, he will win an Emmy for his role in Teacher, Teacher and will be a featured performer in televisions Evening Shade. He will join the ancestors on February 4, 2005. 1958 - Niger gains autonomy within the French Community of Nations. 1961 - Wilt Chamberlain of the NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 78 points vs the Los Angeles Lakers. 1964 - Funeral services are held in Chicago for Sam Cooke. Hundreds of fans will cause damage to the A.R. Leak Funeral Home, where Cookes body is on display. 1971 - Jesse Jackson announces the formation of Operation Push (People United to Save Humanity), a new African American political and economic development organization. Jackson, who resigned from Operation Breadbasket, the economic arm of the SCLC, says, the problems of the 1970s are economic so the solution and goal must be economic. 1971 - The NAACPs Spingarn Medal is presented to Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, founder of Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America (OIC) for his leadership. 1989 - Ernest Dickerson wins the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best cinematography for the movie Do the Right Thing. 1996 - The Oakland, California School board becomes the first in the nation to recognize Black english, a.k.a. Ebonics, as a separate language, NOT a dialect or slang.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:00:07 +0000
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