* Today in Black History - December 25 *
1760 - Jupiter Hammon, a New York slave who was probably the first
African American poet, publishes "An Evening Thought:
Salvation by Christ".
1776 - Oliver Cromwell and Prince Whipple are among soldiers who cross
the Delaware River with George Washington to successfully attack
the Hessians in Trenton, New Jersey, during the Revolutionary
War.
1807 - Charles B. Ray is born in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He will enter
Wesleyan University in Connecticut and be forced to withdraw due
to objections from northerners and southerners. He will later
become a prominent African American leader.
1835 - Benjamin Tucker Tanner is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Father of famous painter Henry O. Tanner, he will become an
A.M.E. bishop and editor of the "Christian Recorder" and
founder in 1884 of the A.M.E. Church Review," a leading
magazine of the day.
1837 - Cheyney University is established in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
It will be first known as the "Institute for Colored Youth". The
school will be moved to George Cheyney's farm, 24 miles west of
Philadelphia, in 1902. It will be renamed in 1913 to "The
Cheyney Training School for Teachers." Cheyney University of
Pennsylvania is the first historically Black institution of
learning in America. It is also the first college in the United
States to receive official state certification as an institution
of higher academic education for African Americans.
1837 - Charles Lenox Remond begins his career as an antislavery agent.
Remond will be one of the first African Americans employed as a
lecturer by the antislavery movement. He will work many years
for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society.
1865 - Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia, Shaw University in
Raleigh, North Carolina, and Virginia Union University in
Richmond, Virginia are founded.
1875 - Charles Caldwell joins the ancestors after being assassinated in
Clinton, Mississippi. He was the first African American in the
state of Mississippi to be accused of the murder of a white man
and found "not guilty" by an all-white jury. He was later
elected to the state senate.
1907 - Cabel "Cab" Calloway is born in Rochester, New York. A versatile
jazz bandleader and singer who will popularize scat singing, his
song "Minnie the Moocher" will be the first million-selling
jazz record. Calloway will also appear in the movie "Porgy and
Bess" as well as perform as a singer in the touring companies
of "Porgy" and "Hello Dolly."
1951 - Harry T. Moore, a Florida NAACP official, joins the ancestors
after being killed by a bomb in his home in Mims, Florida.
Active in expanding the African American vote in Florida and
in desegregating the University of Florida, Moore will be
posthumously awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1952.
1951 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Mabel K. Staupers for
her leadership in the field of nursing.
1956 - The home of Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, a Birmingham, Alabama
protest leader, is destroyed by a dynamite bomb.
1958 - Rickey Henderson is born. He will grow up to become a baseball
player with the Oakland Athletics and New York Yankees and will
become the stolen base king.
1959 - Michael P. Anderson is born in Plattsburgh, New York. He will
be raised in Spokane, Washington. He will graduate from the
University of Washington in 1981 and be commissioned a second
lieutenant in the USAF. He will become Chief of Communication
Maintenance for the 2015 Communication Squadron and later be
Director of Information System Maintenance for the 1920
Information System Group. In 1986 he will be selected to
attend Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance AFB, Oklahoma.
He will serve as an aircraft commander and instructor pilot
in the 920th Air Refueling Squadron, Wurtsmith AFB Michigan.
He will be selected as an astronaut by NASA in December 1994,
and will become qualified for flight crew assignment as a
mission specialist. He will be initially assigned technical
duties in the Flight Support Branch of the Astronaut Office.
He will fly on the crew of STS-89 (Shuttle Endeavour to Space
Station Mir) and will log over 211 hours in space in 1998. Lt.
Colonel Anderson will be assigned to the crew of STS-107
(Shuttle Columbia) and will join the ancestors when Columbia
explodes during re-entry on February 1, 2003.
1965 - The Congress of Racial Equality announces that its national
director, Dr. James Farmer, would resign on March 1.
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