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By his great
mercy we have been born again to a Living Hope through the resurrection of
Jesus Christ.
Scripture of the month: 1 Peter 1:3
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1
 Holy Thursday
1966 First World Festival of Black Arts Dakar W. Africa
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Good Friday
1796 Haitian revolt leader Toussaint L'Ouverture commands
French forces at Santo Domingo.
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3
Holy Saturday
1984 John Thompson of Georgetown University becomes the
first African American coach to win an NCAA basketball tournament.
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Easter Sunday
1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated in Memphis. |
5
1937 Collin Powell, first African American to serve as chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and US Secretary of State in born in New York City.
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6
SSJ & African American Community celebrate 100 years in TX 20021905 W.
Warrick Cardozo, physician and pioneering researcher in sickle-cell anemia,
is born in Washington, DC.
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7
St. John Baptist De La Salle
Billie Holiday, Jazz and blues legend is born
East Baltimore, MD 1915 |
8
Percy Julian and George Washington Carver are the first black inventors
admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. |
9
1950 Juanita Hall is the first black to win a Tony Award, for her portrayal
in Bloody Mary in South Pacific. |
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Divine Mercy Conference of 20101943 Arthur Ashe, first African American to win the men's singles title at
the US Open and Wimbledon, is born in Richmond, VA. |
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St. Stanislaus
1996 43
African nations sign the African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty, pledging
not to build, bury, stockpile, or test nuclear weapons.
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12
1968 Black students occupy
the administration building at Boston University and demand black history
courses and admission of more black students. |
13
1997 Eldrick "Tiger" Woods wins the 61st Masters Tournament in Augusta, GA,
at 21, making him the youngest person and black to with this tournament. |
14
St. Matthew
1775 the
first US abolitionist society, the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of
Slavery is formed in Philadelphia by Quakers
Benjamin Franklin is its first president.
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Jackie Robinson plays in the Major League 1947 |
16
Black Catholic Clergy Caucus founded 1968Abraham Lincoln freed slaves in
D.C.1862 |
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St. Innocent
1758 Frances Williams, first African American to graduate
from college in the Western Hemisphere, publishes a collection of Latin
poems. |
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SSJ's & African American
Community celebrate 100 years in LA 19981818 a regiment of Indians and
Blacks are defeated in the Battle of Suwanna, FL ending the first Seminole
War.
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Black minutemen fought at Lexington and Concord 1775 |
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1926 Harriet Elizabeth Byrd is born in Cheyenne, WY. A teacher, in 1981 she
became Wyoming's first black state legislator. |
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1966 PFC Milton Lee Olive is posthumously awarded the Medal of Hone for
bravery during the Vietnam War. |
22
Earth Day1922 Bassist, composer,, and bandleader Charles Mingus is born
in Mogales, AZ. |
23
St. George
1856 Granville T. Woods, inventor of the steam boiler and
automobile air brakes is born. |
24
National Day of Prayer for Vocations in the Black community |
25
St. Mark
World Day of
Prayer for Vocations
1945 the United Nations is founded at a San Francisco meeting attended by
W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ralph J. Bunche, and Walter Water.
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1991 Maryann Bishop Coffey
becomes the first African American co-chair of the National Conference of
Christians and Jews. |
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1903 Maggie L. Walker
becomes the first black woman to head a bank when she is named president of
Richmond's St. Luke Penny Bank and Trust Company. |
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St. Louis Mary de Montfort
1957 Chicago lawyer W. Robert Ming is elected chairman of the American
Veterans Committee, becoming the first black to head a major national
veterans organization. |
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St Catherine of Siena
1992 Four Los Angeles police officers are acquitted
for charges stemming from the beating of Rodney King, rioting ensues. |
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St. Pius V
1951 Surgeons Rivers Frederick, Ulysses G. Dailey, and Nelson
M. Russell are honored by the International College of Surgeons. |
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