On This Day In Black History...

• 1857 ~ Harriet Tubman rescued her parents from slavery. Alrightee Now!!!


• 1895 ~ Joseph Lee, caterer, restaurant and hotel owner, received a patent for his Bread Crumbing Machine. Disturbed by the wastefulness of discarding day old bread which he used in a variety of recipes, he invented a bread crumb machine which automated the tearing, crumbling and grinding of stale bread into bread crumbs faster than could 5 to 6 men. He sold his rights to his bread crumbling machine, which is still in use today, to Royal Worcester Bread Crumb Company.


• 1946 ~ Mississippi Valley State University is founded in Itta Bena, Miss.


• 1967 ~ Bill Cosby receives an Emmy Award for "I Spy". His achievment is noted because he is the 1st Black actor to find success in a non-traditional television series that did not deal directly with racial themes.


• 1972 ~ After two years of incarceration for commission of a crime at which she was not present, Angela Davis, political activist, scholar, and author is acquitted of murder, kidnapping, and criminal conspiracy charges by a jury of 11 whites and one Mexican American. The charges were brought in connection with a 1970 courthouse shoot-out in San Rafael, CA. Today, Ms. Davis is a professor at UC, Santa Cruz and continues to be an activist. She teaches courses on the history of consciousness, advocates for prison reform and has authored several books.


• 2008 ~ Senator Barack Obama defeats Hillary Clinton and wins the Democratic Presidential nomination. He is the 1st Black American candidate to win a major U.S. party nomination