*                 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   *
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1907 - Robert Weaver is born.  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.

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 dies 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 dies 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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