*                 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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