* Today in Black History - December 29 *
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* The Nguzo Saba - The seven principles of Kwanzaa - Principle for *
* Day #4 - Ujamaa (oo-JAH-mah) Cooperative Economics: To build and *
* maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit *
* from them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa *
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1907 - Robert Clifton Weaver is born in Washington, DC. He will become an
economist, academic, and political administrator. He will serve
as the first United States Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development (H.U.D.) from 1966 to 1968, in the new agency
established in 1965 under President Lyndon B. Johnson. He will
be the first African American to be appointed to a US cabinet-
level position. Prior to his appointment as cabinet officer, he
will serve in the administration of President John F. Kennedy.
In addition, he will serve in New York State government, and in
high-level positions in New York City. During the Franklin D.
Roosevelt administration, he will be one of 45 prominent African
Americans appointed to positions and help make up the Black
Cabinet, an informal group of African American public policy
advisers. He will direct federal programs during the
administration of the New Deal, at the same time completing his
doctorate in economics in 1934 at Harvard University. He will
join the ancestors on July 17, 1997.
1917 - Thomas J. Bradley is born in Calvert, Texas. He will become a
police officer in Los Angeles, California in 1940 and will
retire with the rank of Lieutenant. He will attend Southwestern
University Law School while a police officer and begin his
practice as a lawyer when he retires from the police department.
He will become a successful politician and will be elected as the
first African American mayor of Los Angeles by winning 56% of
the vote. He will serve as mayor for twenty years (five terms).
He will join the ancestors on September 29, 1998.
1925 - At 67, Anna Julia Cooper receives her doctorate from the
University of Paris. Officials of the French Embassy present
the degree to her at ceremonies at Howard University. Cooper
had been a noted college and secondary school educator and will
continue to teach and work for educational improvement for
African Americans until her death at the age of 105.
1939 - Kelly Miller joins the ancestors in Washington, DC. The first
African American to be admitted to Johns Hopkins University (In
1887), and later a longtime professor and dean at Howard
University, Miller was a noted writer, essayist, and newspaper
columnist who opposed the accommodations policies of Booker T.
Washington. He was best known, however, as a champion for
educational development for African Americans, dramatically
increasing enrollment at Howard and founding a "Negro-Americana
Museum and Library," which will become Howard's Moorland-
Spingarn Research Center.
1952 - Noted jazz bandleader Fletcher Henderson joins the ancestors in
New York City. Henderson worked early in his career with Harry
Pace of Black Swan Records as a recording manager and, in 1924,
started playing at the Roseland Ballroom, the same year he
added New Orleans trumpeteer Louis Armstrong to the band.
Armstrong's short tenure helped it evolve from a dance to a
jazz band and established Henderson as the founding father of
the big band movement in jazz.
1954 - The Kingdom of the Netherlands, with Netherlands & Netherlands
Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being.
1982 - Jamaica issues a postage stamp to honor Bob Marley.
2008 - Jazz trumpeter, Freddie Hubbard, joins the ancestors after
succumbing to complications caused by a heart attack he suffered
on November 26, at the age of 70.
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