On This Day In Black History...

• 1716 ~ The 1st group of 500 Slaves arrived in Louisiana from the French colonies of the Caribbean


• 1790 ~ Jean Baptist Pointe Desable, trader and fur trapper, becomes 1st permanent resident and founder of Chicago


• 1831 ~ Convention of Free Persons of Color was held in Phila, PA


• 1863 ~ The Battle of Milken’s Bend - A Negro soldier takes his former "master" prisoner. Poetic Justice!!!, I'm Just Sayin'...


• 1869 ~ Dillard University was chartered in New Orleans, LA


• 1939 ~ Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Rights Advocate, founder of Childen's Defense Fund & 1st woman to be admitted to Mississippi bar was born


• 1942 ~ Congess on Racial Equality, CORE, was founded in Chicago


• 1966 ~ James Meredith, 1st Black graduate of University of Mississippi , is wounded after being shot by an angry and cowardly White sniper, as he marched along US Highway 51 on the 2nd day of a 220 mile voter registration walk from Memphis, TN to Jackson, MI. Have you voted lately? I'm Just Askin'...


• 1966 ~ Stokely "Kwame Toure" Carmichael, Civil Rights Activists, launched the Black Power Movement. Toure defended use of the term as not anti-white, but instead a phrase to denote a political strategy. Specifically, "a call for Black people in America to unite, define their own goals, lead their own organizations, recognize their heritage and build a sense of community..."


• 2004 ~ Phylicia Rashad made theatrical history when she received a Tony for her portrayal of Lena Younger, the tough-minded matriarch, in a revival of “A Raisin in the Sun”