* Today in Black History - July 17 *
1794 - Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Methodist
Episcopal Church.
1794 - Absalom Jones and his followers dedicate The African Church of
St. Thomas in Philadelphia. On August 12, 1794, the St. Thomas
parishioners will affiliate with the Protestant Episcopal Church.
1862 - Congress approves the rights of African Americans to bear arms
to fight in the Civil War and enlist in the Union Army by
passing two laws, the Confiscation and Militia acts. Over
208,000 African Americans and their white officers will serve
in the Union Army, with 38,000 losing their lives.
1863 - Unions troops, with First Kansas volunteers playing a leading
role, route rebels at Honey Springs, Indian Territory. African
American troops capture the colors of a Texas regiment.
1911 - Frank Snowden is born in York County, Virginia. He will become
the foremost scholar on blacks in ancient history, notably for
his books "Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman
Experience" and "Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of
Blacks".
1935 - Carol Diahann Johnson (Diahann Carroll) is born in the Bronx,
New York. She will be better known as Diahann Carroll, star
of Broadway ("House of Flowers"), television ("Julia"), and
films including "Carmen Jones" and "Claudine", the latter
earning her an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress.
1944 - An ammunitions depot at Port Chicago, California explodes killing
320 men including 202 African Americans assigned by the Navy to
handle explosives. The resulting refusal of 258 African Americans
to return to the dangerous work formed the basis of the trial and
conviction of 50 of the men in what will become known as the Port
Chicago Mutiny.
1959 - Billie Holiday, blues singer, joins the ancestors after succumbing
to liver failure at age 44 in New York City.
1967 - A racially motivated disturbance occurs in Cairo, Illinois (within
100 miles of the Mississippi border. The Illinois National Guard
is mobilized during the three day civil disturbance.
1967 - Innovative and famed jazz musician, John Coltrane joins the
ancestors after succumbing to cirrhosis of the liver.
1981 - The Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B. W illiams,
a twenty-three-year-old photographer, for the murder of two of the
twenty-eight Black youths killed in a series of slayings and
disappearances in Atlanta. William denies the charges but will be
convicted in February, 1982.
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