*                 Today in Black History - December 30                *

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* Day #5 -  Nia (nee-AH) Purpose: To make as our collective vocation  *
* the building and developing of our community in order to restore    *
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1842 - Josiah T. Walls is born near Winchester, Virginia.  He will
        become, in 1871, Florida's first African American congressman.

1892 - Physician, Dr. Miles V. Lynk, publishes the first African American
        medical journal.

1916 - Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard, of Brown University, becomes
        the first African American running back named to the All-American
        team.

1928 - Elias Bates McDaniel is born in Magnolia, Mississippi.  Better
        known as Bo Diddley, he will influence a generation of musicians
        including such groups as the Rolling Stones and the Doors.  A
        favorite of President John F. Kennedy, who invited Diddley to
        play in the White House in 1962, he will be inducted into the
        Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

1929 - The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is incorporated.

1929 - The "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work" campaign begins in Chicago
        with picketing of Chain stores on the South Side. The campaign
        spread to New York, Cleveland, Los Angeles and other cities and
        continued throughout the Depression.

1929 - Mordecai W. Johnson receives the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for his
        work as the first African American president of Howard University.

1935 - Marian Anderson makes a historic appearance in New York City's
        Town Hall.  Fresh from a triumphant tour in Europe, Anderson
        will be hailed by New York critics as one of the "great singers
        of our time."  Her performance will mark a new era in the
        Philadelphian's long and successful career.  Her performance is
        described by Howard Taubman, the New York Times reviewer, as
        "music-making that probed too deep for words."

1952 - Tuskegee Institute reports there were no lynchings during the
        year for the first time in the 71 years it has been keeping such
        records.

1960 - Poet Langston Hughes is presented the NAACP's Spingarn Medal and
        cited as "the poet laureate of the Negro race."

1960 - Two U.S. courts issues temporary injunctions to prevent eviction
        of about seven hundred African American sharecroppers in Haywood
        and Fayette counties, Tennessee.

1961 - Ben Johnson is born.  He will become a world class 100 meter
        runner.  He win the Olympic gold medal in 1988 and will be later
        disqualified for using steroids.

1975 - The constitution of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes
        into effect.

1975 - Eldrick 'Tiger' Woods is born.  He will become the first African
        American or Asian American to win the Masters Golf tournament.
        He will accomplish this feat in his first year on the PGA tour
        at the age of 21 also making him the youngest person to win the
        Masters tournament.

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