* Today in Black History - December 24 *
1832 - The first hospital for African Americans is founded by
whites and chartered in Savannah, Georgia.
1853 - Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert is born in Olgethorpe,
Georgia. Albert is best known for her book "House of
Bondage", a collection of seven informal narratives of
slaves' lives.
1881 - Tennessee starts the modern segregation movement with
Jim Crow railroad car laws and is followed by Florida
(1887), Mississippi (1888), Texas (1889), Louisiana
(1890), Alabama, Kentucky, Arkansas and Georgia (1891),
South Carolina (1898), North Carolina (1899), Virginia
(1900), Maryland (1904), and Oklahoma (1907).
1881 - The United Order of True Reformer, an African American
fraternal order, is established.
1881 - The exodus of five thousand Blacks from Edgefield County,
South Carolina begins. They become migrants, protesting
exploitation and violence, finally settling in Arkansas.
1898 - Irvin C. Mollison is born in Chicago, Illinois. In 1945,
he will be appointed the first African American judge to
the U.S. Customs Court.
1924 - Irving Lee Dorsey is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He
will become a vocalist, best known for the recording of
"Working in the Coal Mines." He will join the ancestors
on December 1, 1986 after succumbing to emphysema.
1936 - Count Basie makes his New York debut at the Roseland
Ballroom.
1954 - In a session with the Miles Davis All-Stars, Thelonius
Monk records "Bag's Groove," which many will regard as his
finest solo performance.
1992 - Alphonso Michael 'Mike' Espy becomes the first African
American to hold the position of Secretary of Agriculture.
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