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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