*              Today in Black History - December 18           *

 

1852 - George H. White is born in Rosindale, North Carolina.  

            He will   become a lawyer, state legislator, and in 1896, 

            the only African American member of the United States 

            House of Representatives, where he will be the first to 

            introduce an anti-lynching bill.  White will also found 

            the town of Whitesboro, New Jersey, as a haven for 

            African Americans  escaping southern racism.

 

1860 - South Carolina declares itself an "independent 

            commonwealth." 

 

1865 - Congress proclaims the ratification of the thirteenth 

            Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery.  The 

            ratification process had been completed on December 6, 

            1865.

 

1917 - Raiford Chatman "Ossie" Davis is born in Cogdell, Georgia.  

            While he will be best known as an actor in such plays as 

            "Jeb" (where he will meet his wife, Ruby Dee) and "Purlie 

            Victorious" and films like "Let's Do It Again," "Do The 

            Right Thing," and "Jungle Fever," he will be a playwright, 

            screenwriter, and director(Cotton Comes to Harlem).  In 

            1969, he will win an Emmy for his role in "Teacher, 

            Teacher" and will be a featured performer in television's 

            "Evening Shade." He will join the ancestors on February 4, 

            2005.

 

1958 - Niger gains autonomy within the French Community of Nations.

 

1961 - Wilt Chamberlain of the NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 78 

            points vs the Los Angeles Lakers.

 

1964 - Funeral services are held in Chicago for Sam Cooke. Hundreds

            of fans will cause damage to the A.R. Leak Funeral Home, 

            where Cooke's body is on display. 

 

1971 - Jesse Jackson announces the formation of Operation Push 

            (People United to Save Humanity), a new African American 

            political and economic development organization.  Jackson, 

            who resigned from Operation Breadbasket, the economic arm 

            of the SCLC, says, "the problems of the 1970's are economic 

            so the solution and goal must be economic."

 

1971 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Rev. Leon H. 

            Sullivan, founder of Opportunities Industrialization 

            Centers of America (OIC) for his leadership.

 

1989 - Ernest Dickerson wins the New York Film Critics Circle Award 

            for best cinematography for the movie "Do the Right Thing."

 

1996 - The Oakland, California School board becomes the first in 

            the nation to recognize Black English, a.k.a. Ebonics, as a 

            separate language, NOT a dialect or slang.


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