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1864 - Saint Francis Xavier Church in Baltimore, Maryland is dedicated.
It is the first exclusively African American parish in the
United States.
1895 - The North Carolina Legislature adjourns for the day to mark the
death of Frederick Douglass.
1895 - William Henry Harrison Heard, African Methodist Episcopal minister
& educator, is named Minister Resident and Consul General to
Liberia by President Grover Cleveland. He will serve until 1898.
1933 - Eunice Waymon (Nina Simone) is born in Tryon, North Carolina.
She will begin her entertaining career in 1954 and bolstered
by critical praise for her 1959 recording of "I Loves You,
Porgy," she will tour in the U.S. and Europe during the 1960's
and early 1970's. Returning to the concert stage and recording
studio in 1977, she will be called the "High Priestess of Soul."
She will record rarely in the 1970's and 1980's, but will
experience a career comeback in the United States with her 1993
album release, "A Single Woman." She will join the ancestors in
Carry-le-Rouet (South of France) on April 21, 2003. As she wished,
her ashes will be spread in different African countries.
1936 - Barbara Jordan is born in Houston, Texas. The first African
American state senator in the Texas legislature since 1883
and a three-term congresswoman, she will play a key role in
the 1974 Watergate hearings. In 1976, she will be the first
woman and first African American to make a keynote speech
before the Democratic National Convention. She will join the
ancestors on January 17, 1996 in Austin, Texas.
1940 - John Lewis is born in Troy, Alabama. He will become founder
and chairman of SNCC, organizer of the Selma-to-Montgomery
March in 1965, executive director of the Voter Education
Project, and congressman from Georgia's 5th District. Lewis'
power will continue to be felt when he is named Democratic
deputy whip by Speaker of the House Thomas S. Foley in 1991.
1950 - Sahle-Work Zewde is born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She will become
a career diplomat in the Ethiopian foreign service. She will be
elected President of Ethiopia on October 25, 2018 and the first
woman to hold the office. She will be elected president
unanimously by members of the Federal Parliamentary Assembly.
Sahle-Work will previously be Special Representative of United
Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to the African Union
and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union at
the level of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
She will be only the second woman to be appointed an ambassador
in Ethiopia's history (Ambassador Yodit Emiru was the first woman
to hold an ambassadorship). A veteran in the Ethiopian foreign
service, she will serve as Ambassador to Senegal, with
accreditation to Mali, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia and
Guinea, from 1989 to 1993. From 1993 to 2002, she will be
Ambassador to Djibouti and Permanent Representative to the
Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). She will later
serve as Ambassador to France, Permanent Representative to the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) and will be accredited to Tunisia and Morocco from 2002
to 2006. She subsequently will hold other high level positions
including Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the African
Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
and Director-General for African Affairs in the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia.
1965 - El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) joins the ancestors after
being assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem at the
age of 39. He was best known for his doctrine of
self-determination for African American people, including
their right to fight for their rights and protect themselves
in a hostile America by "whatever means necessary."
1976 - Florence Ballard, one of the original Supremes, joins the
ancestors in Detroit, Michigan, at the age of 32. Ballard
had said that she never received a royalty check prior to
1967 for any of her work with the Supremes, who featured
Diana Ross and included Mary Wilson.
1982 - "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at the Longacre Theater in New York
City after 1,604 performances.
1998 - Julian Bond, civil rights leader from the 1960's, former
Georgia state legislator, and college professor, becomes the
new chairperson of the NAACP.
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