openentrance – What's Really Going OnWhat's Really Going On

The Dutch brought the first 20 Black slaves to the North America and the colony of Jamestown on this day 1619.

Richard Allen chairs the first National Negro Convention in Philadelphia on this day in 1830.

Wilberforce University was founded on this day in 1856

The SS Frederick Douglass, the first ship named in honor of a black man, was lost in European waters on this day in 1944

The Spingarn Medal was presented to Charles R. Drew “who set up and ran the blood plasma bank in the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City which served as one of the models for the widespread system of blood banks now in operation for the American Red Cross” on this day in 1944.

WB Purvis patented the electric railway switchon this date in 1897

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the father of the Black Nationalist movement and Pan Africanism was born on this date in 1887.

The first Miss Black America Pageant was held on this date in 1968.

Roberto Clemente became the first Black Hispanic baseball player to be featured on a US Postal Stamp on this day in 1984

Freed American slaves established

Liberia on this date in 1824

Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as assistant secretary on this date in 1931

A Race riot in Dixmoor, a Chicago suburb took place on this date in1964

The Dance Theater of Harlem was founded on this date in 1969

Andrew Young resigned under pressure as UN ambassador after unauthorized meeting with representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization on this date in 1979. His resignation created a storm of controversy and divided the Black and Jewish communities.

Dr. Asa G. Hilliard, who as a teacher, psychologist and historian shaped the minds was an inspiration to and laid the groundwork for future African-American students, died Sunday while on a trip to

Egypt. He was 73.  Since 1980, Dr. Hilliard was the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Urban Education at

Georgia

State

University. Dr. Hilliard reportedly died from malaria. “We’re not sure officially that it was malaria, but we believe he had contracted it in Ghana,” said a spokeswoman for

Georgia

State. “They haven’t done an autopsy to say for sure.”  Dr. Hilliard was in

Egypt with a group of students. He frequently conducted study tours to Egypt to show its connection to the rest of

Africa and its impact on the world. Read the rest of this entry »

President Lincoln received first group of Blacks to confer with a U.S. president on a matter of public policy. He urged Blacks to emigrate to Africa or

Central America and was bitterly criticized by Northern Blacks on this date in 1862.

 

Race riot, Springfield, Illinois. Troops called out. Riot led to the founding of NAACP in 1908.

The first African American man, Anthony Ervin of Valencia, Calif., made the U.S. Olympic Swimming team on this date in 2000.

How long has Cincinnati been racist? On this day in 1867 more than 1000 Black people left the city for Canada followin Race Riots.

Race Riots also marred Athens, Alabama on this date in 1944

Carl Lewis matched Jesse Owens record of four Gold Medals at the Los Angeles Olympics on this date in 1984

Colin Powell was named Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on this date in 1989.  He was the highest ranking military offical in the country at the time.