* 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 returned to
the South nineteen times and brought 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.
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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