Sunday, January 30, 2011

On This Day In Black History...

1797 ~ Sojourner "Ain't I A Woman Too" Truth, abolitionist & women's rights activist, was born a slave in Hurley, NY. Escaped in 1826 with her daughter. First Black woman gto successfully sue a White man for custody of her son. d

1797 ~ Congress refused to accept the 1st recorded petition from Black Americans.

1800 ~ Blacks were 18.9% of the US population; 1,002,037 to 5,308,483. Lots & Lots of FREE Labor. Shame they couldn't vote for that 1797 petition. Think it was to free them? How bout' wages for their labor? Think it might have passed?

I'm Just Wonderin'...

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

On This Day In Black History...

1920 ~ Andrew "Rube" Foster organized the first Black baseball league, the Negro National League.

1923 ~ Rosewood, FL, town of affluent Blacks, was destroyed by mobs of angry Whites. (1997 Movie)

1971 ~ Black Congressional members organized the Congressional Black Caucus to address to provide awarance and to create alliances, politically, racially and socially, issues of key concern to Black community.

2005 ~ Barack Obama began on his path to the Presidency. He was sworn in as the junior Senator from Illinois, 3rd Black U.S. Senator since reconstruction, only 5 in U.S. history.