Opening In Theaters Friday July 2, 2010
In Theaters Friday July 2,010
Hi Guys hope you’ve done well this week. I’ve been busy with my grandson James so I haven’t been very consistent with my posts. I’m going to pick things up soon I promise. I’ve got Arnetta’s birthday party to post and we’re hitting Disneyland for Jame’s birthday this weekend. Find something to do that’s going to make you smile and remember to enjoy every minute like it’s your last.
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Paramount |
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| July 2 | |
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Cinema Libre Studio |
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TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY 2/28/10
February 28 - 1704 – A school for African Americans is opened in New York City by Elias Neau, a Frenchman.
1708 – A slave revolt occurs in Newton, Long Island in New York State. Seven whites are killed. Two African American male slaves and an Indian slave are hanged, and an African American woman is burned alive.
1776 – George Washington, in his letter of acknowledgment to Phyllis Wheatley for a poem she wrote for his birthday, says, “I thank you most sincerely for…the elegant line you enclosed…the style and manner exhibit a striking proof of your poetic talents.”
1778 – Rhode Island General Assembly in precedent-breaking act authorizes the enlistment of slaves.
1854 – Some 50 slavery opponents meet in Ripon, Wisconsin, to call for the creation of a new political group, which will become the Republican Party.
1859 – Arkansas legislature requires free African Americans to choose between exile and enslavement. Read more »
TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY 2/27/10
February 27 - 1788 - Prince Hall, Revolutionary War Veteran and founder of African Masonic Lodges, *may* have been born on this date. Though his accomplishments are well celebrated, little is known of Prince Hall’s early life.
1833 – Maria W. Steward delivered one of the four speeches which confirmed her place in history as the first American-born woman to give public lectures. Stewards lectures focused on encouraging African-Americans to attain education, political rights, and public recognition for their achievements. Her speech on thi day delivered at the African Masonic Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, was titled “On African Rights and Liberty.” Sixty-seven years later in Boston on this same day, African-American teacher and poet Angelina Weld Grimke was born. Grimke was a descendant of the famous white abolitionist and feminist sisters Angelina and Sarah Grimke.
1844 – The Dominican Republic gains its independence from Haiti. Read more »
TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY 2/26/10
February 26 - 1844 – James Edward O’Hara is born in New York City
1869 – Sissieretta Jones is born Matilda S. Joyner in Portsmouth, Virginia
1870 – Wyatt Outlaw, Town Commissioner in Graham, North Carolina,is lynched by the “White Brotherhood,” The Ku Klux Klan. He was president of the Alamance County Union League of America (an anti Ku Klux Klan group), helped to establish the Republican party in North Carolina and advocated establishing a school for African Americans. His offense was that Gov. Holden had appointed him a justice of the Peace, and he had accepted the appointment,
1872 – Creation of Cookman Institute, in Jacksonville, Florida
1877 – At a conference in the Wormley Hotel in Washington, representatives of Rutherford B. Hayes and representatives of the South negotiated agreements which paved the way for the election of Hayes as president and the withdrawal of federal troops from the South. Read more »
TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY 2/25/10
February 25 - 1826 – Alexander G. Clark was born in Washington county, PA
1839 – Seminoles and their Black allies shipped from Tampa Bay, Florida, to the West.
1867 – Tennessee Gov. William Gannaway Brownlow issues a proclamation warning that the unlawful events of the Ku Klux Klan ”must and SHALL cease” and that militia would be immediately organized against the organization. This is in response to Ku Klux Klan activities in a nine county area. The KKK was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee on December 15, 1865)
1870 – Hiram Rhoades Revels of Mississippi becomes the first African American Senator. Read more »
TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY 2/24/10
February 24 - 1811 - Daniel A. Payne, is born in Charleston, South Carolina.
1842 – James Forten, Sr. passes away in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1864 – Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first black woman to receive an M.D. degree.
1868 – House of Representatives voted, 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson.
1940 – Jimmy Ellis is born in Louisville, Kentucky.
1956 – Eddie Murray is born in Los Angeles, California. Read more »
TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY 2/20/10
February 20 – 1847 – W.R. Pettiford, born Granville County, NC Founder of Alabama Penny Savings Bank,
1869 – Tennessee Governor W.C. Brownlow declared martial law in nine countys during Ku Klux Klan crisis.
1885 – Princeville, NC incorporated. princeville is the oldest black incorporated town in the USA
1895 – Frederick Douglass passes away age 78
1927 – Sidney Poitier is born in Miami, Fl
1931 – Lt. Gen. Emmett Paige, Jr. born in Jacksonville, Florida
1936 – John Hope passes away at age 67
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