* Today in Black History - December 29 * *********************************************************************** * 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/ * *********************************************************************** 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. ______________________________________________________________ Munirah Chronicle is edited by Brother Mosi Hoj "The TRUTH shall make you free" E-mail: <[log in to unmask]> Archives: <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/Munirah.html> ______________________________________________________________ To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]> In the E-mail body place: Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name ______________________________________________________________ Munirah(TM) is a trademark of Information Man. Copyright 2001, All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with CODE One Communications.