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* 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 *
* from them. http://www.endarkenment.com/kwanzaa/ *
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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 joins the ancestors 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 joins the ancestors 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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