*                 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://www.endarkenment.com/kwanzaa/                      *
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1907 - Robert Weaver is born in Washington, DC. He will become the 
	first African American appointed to a presidential cabinet 
	position when President Lyndon B. Johnson names him to 
             head the newly created Department of Housing and Urban 
             Development. He will join the ancestors on July 17, 1997.

1917 - Thomas Bradley is born in Calvert, Texas.  He will become a 
	successful politician in California 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.

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.

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