* 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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