September 2010 |
October 2010
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"…you must therefore set no bounds to your love, just as your Heavenly Father set none to His."
Scripture of the month: The Sermon on the Mount - Matthew 5:48
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St. Therese of the Child Jesus
1903 Virginia Proctor Powell, the 1st black woman trained as a librarian in the
United States is born in Wilkinsburg PA
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Guardian Angels
1958 The Republic of Guinea, under Ahmed Sekou gains independence from France.
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Respect Life Sunday
1990 Rio de Janeiro's first black congresswoman wins Mayoral race.
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St. Francis of Assisi
1864 New Orleans Tribune, first Black daily newspaper began. |
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1878 George B. Vashon, first African American Lawyer in the state of New York
dies in Rodney, MS. |
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1917 Fannie Lou Hamer, founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party is
born in Montgomery County, MS.
 Creating a Vision of a Post-Racial World
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Our Lady of Rosary
1993 Author Toni Morrison is the first African American to win the Nobel Prize
in literature.
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St. Marcellus
1980 Bob Marley collapses during a concert in Pittsburg, PA; he will not
perform again. |
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St. Louis Bertrand
1806 Mathematician and astronomer Benjamin Banneker dies in Ellicott City, MD.
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Vocation Awareness Sunday
1901 Frederick Douglas Patterson founder of the United Negro College Fund is
born in Washington, DC.
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Columbus Day
1894 National Negro Catholic Congress met in Baltimore, MD.
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1932 comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory is born in St. Louis, MO
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St. Edward
Our Lady of Fatima
1925 Garland Anderson's Appearance opens at Frolic Theater on Broadway, the
first full length play by an African American.
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1964 Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, is awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
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St. Teresa of Avila
1968 Wyomia Tyus becomes the first person to win a gold medal in the 100-meter
race in two consecutive Olympic games.
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St. Margaret Alacoque
St.Gall
1995 The Million Man March, for "A Day of Atonement" takes place in Washington,
DC.
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St. Ignatius of Antioch
1806 Jean-Jacques Dessalines, revolutionist and emperor of Haiti, is
assassinated in Port-au-Prince.
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St. Luke
1945 Paul Robeson awarded Spingarn Medal. |
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St. Isaac Jogues
1936 Dr. Johnetta Cole, the first black female president of Spelman College in
Atlanta is born in Jacksonville, FL.
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St. Paul of the Cross
1946 W.E.B. Dubois speech, "Behold The Lord".
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1872 John H. Conyers Sr, becomes the first African American admitted to US
Naval Academy.
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1959 Sidney Becket, pioneer jazz musician died in Paris.
2nd Annual St. Josephine Bakhita/St.
Katharine Drexel Award Dinner
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1959 NAACP petition against racial injustice in United States 1947.
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World Mission Sunday
2005 Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer dies at age 92 in Detroit, MI.
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1985 Dolores B. Grier, 1st lay person to be diocesan vice chancellor, New York
City.
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1911 singer Mahalia Jackson, reigned as a pioneer interpreter of gospel music
was born in New Orleans, LA.
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1890 Dr. Charles H. Garvin, first African American physician commissioned in
the US Army, civic leader, and businessman was born in Jacksonville, FL.
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Sts. Simon and Jude Thaddeus
1981 Edward M. McIntyre is elected the first African American mayor of Augusta,
GA.
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1949 Alonzo G. Moron of the Virgin Islands becomes the first African American
president of Hampton Institute VA. |
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1966 Huey Newton and Bobby Seale found the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
in Oakland, CA. |
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Eve of All Saints
1900 actor and singer Ethel Waters is born in Chester, PA.
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