1 65 - Bill authorized
slav as soldiers in Confederate
Anny.
1 7·1919 - Madame C.J.
Walker, cosmetics manufac
turer, first Black woman mil
lionaire.
1870 - Jonathan Wright,
first, Black admitted to Pennsyl
vania Bar became an Associate
Justice of South Carolina's Su
preme Court.
What was the first mooie that
starred a Black actor with a
white supporting cast?
1773 -J n Baptiste Poin
Du Sable, Black pion rand x
plorer, founded Chicago.
1791 - Thomas Downing
was born. He saved the New 1947 - William J. Jefferson
York Herald from bankruptcy. is born in Lake Providence, La.
He will become a Loui iana
1889 - Menelik became state enator in 1979 and, in
ruler of Abyssinia. 1990 the first congressman
1899 -J.H. Robinson patent elected from the tate since
li� aving guards for locomo- Charles Edmund N h left office
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-Th Ph ni oci y,
19 h-Ted
7 100,000.
- Opti 1 p ratus for
indi ing tool position.
For what NFL teamdid tight
ends Pettu Norman, Franke
Clarke and Rayfield Wright
play?
1 7 - Lou' Lauti r, fi
B 1 ck con ion 1 n w m n.
For what invention w D.E.
Howard most Mud?
1777 - Vermont aboli hed
lavery.
17 - Ja� Treaty f·
facted. - '
1872 - T.J, Boyd patent
pa tu for detaching ho
from earria
1937 - The Count B ie Or
che tra, with vocalis Billie
Holiday and Jimmy Rushing,
opens at the Apollo Th tre in
Harlem.
1939 - The New Negro
Theater is founded in Los Ange
les, Calif., by Langston ·Hughes.
The company stages as its fi
performance Hughes' play
Don't You Want to be Free'
1971-Reverend1eon Sulli
van was elected to General Mo
tors Board of Directors. '
Who played the role of the
"Cowardly Lion" in the motion
picture version "The Wiz"?
Struggle by tens of thou and of working people were the force that over
threw egregation. Above,81 ck in Montogomery, Alabama, wait to car pool
during the Montgomery b boycott of 1955-56. Martin Luther King is in
center.
·ECK.
Every month millions of Am
n
1842 - Robert C. DeLarge is
born in Aiken, S.C. He will de
feat a white opponent by 986
votes out of32,OOO cast to earn a
seat as a South Carolina repre
sentative to the U.S. Congress.
1947 - John Lee, first Black
cornmisaiened officer in U.S.
Navy, assigned to duty.
1956 - Montgomery bus boy
cott ended in victory,
1959 - Saxophonist and ma
jor influence on the "Cool
School" of jazz, Lester "Prez"
Young dies at 50 in New York
City.
Who wrote "If Beale Street
Could Talk"?
1827 - Freedom's Journal,
first Black newspaper, began
publishing in New York City.
1846 - Rebecca Cole) the
second Black femal physician
in America, was born.
1951 - The las all-Black
army unit, the 24th Infantry
Regiment, was deactivated.
1960 - San Antonio, TX, be
comes the first major Southern
city to integrate lunch counters.
What distinction does Mary
Eliza Mahoney hold?
put their h rd e rned m y in
their landlords· p cke�. in of
putting.' to\Nard th ir tutu . \Nhy?
B c us th y didn't krvovv th t for about \Nh th y're
p yin In r nt. th y could buy hom of th Ir O\N .
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St. Patrick's Day .
1863 - The 54th Massachu
setts Volunteers became the
first Black Regiment raised in
the North.
1885- W.F. Cosgrove patent
automatic stop plug for gas-oil
pipes.
1896 - C.B. Scott pat nt
str sw r
1919 - Na haniel Ad m
Coles is born in Montgomery,
Ala. Better known as Nat "King"
Cole, he will tart his musical
career in a band with his broth r
Eddie and in a production of
Shuffle Along. Leader of the
King Cole Trio, he will achieve
international acclaim as a jazz
pianist before becoming n even
more popular balladeer known
for such songs as "Mona Lisa,"
"The Christmas Song" and "Un
forgettable." Cole will also have
the distinction of being he frist
African-Am rican to host a ne -
work television eries (1956-
1957), a pion r in breaking
NAT KING COLE
down racial b rrie . in Las
Vegas.
How much mon did the
. . Government spend for the
capture of Anthony Burns in .
1854?
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