* Today in Black History - December 3 * 1841 - Abolitionist Charles Lenox Remond returns to the United States after a year and a half in Great Britain. He had been serving as a delegate to the world Anti- Slavery Convention in London. He brings with him an "Address from the People of Ireland" including 60,000 signatures urging Irish-Americans to "oppose slavery by peaceful means and to insist upon liberty for all regardless of color, creed, or country." 1843 - The Society of Colored People in Baltimore, is the first African American Catholic association whose documentation has been preserved. Their notebook will begin today and continue until September 7, 1845. 1847 - Frederick Douglass and Martin R. Delaney begin the publication of "The North Star" newspaper, one of the leading abolitionist newspapers of its day. 1864 - The Twenty-Fifth Corps, the largest all African American unit in the history of the U.S. Army, is established by General Order # 297 of the War Department, Adjutant General's Office. The Colored Troops of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina were organized into the Twenty-Fifth Corps under the command of Major General G. Weitzel. 1866 - John Swett Rock, a Massachusetts lawyer and dentist joins the ancestors. He had become the first African American certified to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase appointed Dr. Rock to present cases before the Supreme Court on December 31, 1865. 1868 - The trial of ex-Confederacy president, Jefferson Davis starts, marking the first United States trial with African Americans included in the jury. 1883 - The Forty-Eighth Congress (1883-85) convenes. Only Two African Americans are included as representatives. They are James E. O'Hara of North Carolina and Robert Smalls of South Carolina. 1883 - George L. Ruffin is appointed a city judge in Boston, Massachusetts. 1922 - Ralph Alexander Gardner-Chavis is born in Cleveland, Ohio. He will become a pioneer chemist whose research into plastics leads to the development of so-called "hard plastics." His innovations in the manipulation of catalytic chemicals will lead to the products for the petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries as well as plastics. He will work under nuclear scientist Dr. Enrico Fermi and radioactivity scientist Dr. Nathan Sugarman. He will be one of more than a dozen black scientists who were involved in research on the Manhattan Project, which will lead to the atomic bomb. Known throughout most of his life as Ralph Alexander Gardner, he will add the "Chavis" surname late in his career in recognition of his relationship to John Chavis, in 1760 the first African American to graduate from Princeton. In 1949, he will become a research chemist and project leader at the Standard Oil Company in Ohio, where he will remain for almost 20 years. He will complete his graduate studies at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, earning both a master's degree and Ph.D. in chemistry in 1952 and 1959 respectively. He will then take a teaching position in Cleveland State University's Chemistry Department, where he will remain full-time from 1968 to 1985. He will later combine part-time teaching with work in the research lab of Molecular Technology Corporation, a private firm where he will also serve as the Vice President of Research and on the board of directors. 1951 - President Truman names a committee to monitor compliance with anti-discrimination provisions in U.S. government contracts and sub-contracts. 1956 - Wilt Chamberlain plays in his first collegiate basketball game and scores 52 points. 1962 - Edith Spurlock Sampson is sworn in as the first African American woman judge. 1964 - David A. Harris is hired by American Airlines, becoming the first African American to be hired as a pilot for a major passenger airline. 1964 - The Spingarn Medal is presented to NAACP executive secretary Roy Wilkins for his contribution to "the advancement of the American people and the national purpose." 1964 - The Independence Bank of Chicago is organized. 1964 - J. Raymond Jones is elected leader of the New York Democratic organization (Tammany Hall). 1970 - Jennifer Josephine Hosten become the first African American Miss World. 1979 - An University of Southern California running back, Charles White, is named the Heisman Trophy winner for 1979. White, who gained a career regular season total of 5,598 yards, will play professionally for the Los Angeles Rams. 1982 - Thomas Hearns unifies the world boxing titles in the junior middleweight division by capturing the WBC title over Wilfredo Benitez. 1988 - Barry Sanders wins the Heisman Trophy. 1988 - In South Africa, 11 black funeral mourners are slain in Natal Province in an attack blamed on security forces. 1990 - "Black Art - Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African American Art" opens at the Dallas Museum of Art. United States and Caribbean artists represented among the more than 150 works include Richmond Barthe', John Biggers, Aaron Douglas, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, and Houston Conwill. 1997 - President Clinton hosts his first town hall meeting on America's race relations in Akron, Ohio. ______________________________________________________________ Munirah Chronicle is edited by Mr. Rene' A. Perry "The TRUTH shall make you free" E-mail: <[log in to unmask]> Archives: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html http://blackagenda.com/cybercolonies/index.htm _____________________________________________________________ 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 1997 - 2016, All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with The Black Agenda.