*                Today in Black History - December 6           *  

 

1806 - The African Meeting House is established in Boston, 

            Massachusetts and will become the oldest African 

            American house of worship still standing in the United 

            States.  This house of worship will be constructed 

            almost entirely by African American laborers and 

            craftsmen, but funds will be contributed by the white 

            community. Because of the leadership role its 

            congregation takes in the early struggle for civil 

            rights, the African Meeting House will become known as 

            the Abolition Church and Black Faneuil Hall. Frederick 

            Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison will be speakers 

            there.

 

1849 - Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland.  She 

            will return to the South nineteen times and bring out 

            more than three hundred slaves.

 

1865 - Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. 

            Constitution, abolishing slavery is completed.  The 

            proclamation of its acceptance will take place on 

            December 18, 1865. 

 

1869 - The National Black labor convention meets in Washington, 

            DC.

 

1870 - Joseph H Rainey becomes the first African American in 

            the House of Representatives, from the state of South 

            Carolina.

 

1871 - P.B.S. Pinchback is elected president pro tem of the 

            Louisiana Senate and acting lieutenant governor.  He is 

            the first African American to serve in these positions 

            in state government.

 

1875 - The Forty-Fourth Congress of 1875-1877 convenes with a 

            high of eight African Americans taking office.  They are 

            Senator Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi and congressmen 

            Jeremiah Haralson of Alabama, Josiah T. Walls of Florida, 

            John Roy Lynch of Mississippi, John A. Hyman of North 

            Carolina, Charles E. Nash of Louisiana,; and Joseph H. 

            Rainey and Robert Smalls of South Carolina.

 

1892 - Theodore Lawless is born.  He will become a medical 

            pioneer. 

 

1932 - Don King is born.  He will become the most controversial 

            and best known boxing promoter in the history of the 

            sport.

 

1949 - Blues legend Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter joins the 

            ancestors in New York City.

 

1956 - Nelson Mandela and 156 others are jailed for political 

            activities in South Africa. 

 

1960 - 500 store owners sign pledges of nondiscrimination in 

            Tucson, Arizona.

 

1961 - Dr. Frantz O. Fanon, noted author of "Black Skins, White 

            Masks" and "Wretched of the Earth", joins the ancestors 

            in Washington, DC. He succumbs to leukemia at the 

            National Institutes of Health.

 

1977 - South Africa grants Bophuthatswana its independence.  

            The constitution in effect after South Africa's first 

            all-race elections in April 1994 will abolish this 

            black homeland, which will be reabsorbed into South 

            Africa.


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