July 2008 | August 2008
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Scripture of the Month: Luke 10:41
"Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?" |
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National Office for Black Catholics (NOBC) opened Washington, DC 19701899
Rev Thomas Dorsey, father of gospel music is born in Villa Rica, GA
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John H. Ricard, SSJ ordained Catholic Bishop of Baltimore, MD 1984Oblate
Sisters of Providence founded, Baltimore, MD 1829
Martin Holley ordained Catholic Bishop, Washington, DC 2004
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3
St. Thomas the ApostleJackie Robinson is the
first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of
Fame 1962 |
4
St. Elizabeth of PortugalIndependence Day
1881 Tuskegee Institute opens in Tuskegee AL with Booker T. Washington as
its first president |
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Arthur Ashe defeats Jimmie Connors Wimbledon, 1892 Andrew Beard is issued a
patent for the rotary engine |
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St. Maria GorettiLouis Armstrong, King of
Jazz died 1971
1993 eleven (11) lives are lost in anti-government riot in Lagos, Nigeria
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Althea Gibson won women's singles tennis crown at Wimbledon 19571997
professional boxer Mike Tyson dropped from WBA for biting Evander Holyfield
during championship bout |
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Lawrence E. Lucas, author "Black Priest White Church" born New York City
1933 |
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National Black Catholic Congress VII, New Orleans, LA 19921936 poet and
author June Jordon is born in Harlem
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Mary M. Bethune, educator and leader born Mayesville, SC 18751993 Kenyan
runner Yobes Ondieki is the first to run 10,000 meters in less than 27 mins. |
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St. Benedict Abbot1915 Mifflin Wistar Gibbs,
first African American to be elected a municipal judge dies |
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National Black Catholic Congress X, Buffalo, NY, 2007 |
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St. Henry1928 Robert N. C. Nix, Jr., first
African American chief justice of state supreme court (Pennsylvania) is born
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Blessed Kateri TekakwithaFranciscan
Handmaids of Mary founded 1916
Henry Blair patented corn harvester 1834
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St. Bonaventure
 World Youth Day (WYD) Sydney, Austraila
James McGhee sworn in as 1st
African American mayor of Dayton, OH 1970
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Our Lady of Mt. CarmelIda B. Wells Barnett
organizer of anti-lynching crusade born 1862
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Billie Holiday, blues singer died 19581911 Frank Snowden foremost scholar
on African Americans in ancient history is born in York County VA
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St. Camillus de LellisBlacks became legal
citizens in 1868 |
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Wilma Rudolph set world record (200 meter dash) in 1960 Olympics |
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The first National Black Power Conference opened Newark, NJ 1967 |
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Mary C. Terrell organized National Association of Colored Women 1896,
Washington, DC
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St. Mary Magdalene1939 Jane Bolin is
appointed to New York City's Domestic Relations Court, becoming the first
female African American Judge
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St. BridgetDr. Louis T. Wright, surgeon and
physician born 1891
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Charles S. Johnson, educator born 1893Billy Taylor, jazz pianist and
educator born Greenville, NC 1921
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St. James the Apostle
Knights of Peter Claver Senior
Convention
1916 wearing the
protective mask he invented
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St. Joachim and St. Ann, parents of Mary1865
Catholic priest Patrick Healy becomes the first African American to earn a
PhD degree
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Black Boston Women founded the African America Female Intelligence Society
1832
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Curtis J. Guillory, SVD, installed Catholic Bishop, Beaumont, TX 2000 |
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St. MarthaFirst National Conference of
Colored Women Convention 1895
1909 Crime novelist Chester Himes is born in Jefferson City MO
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St. Peter Chrysologus |
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St. Ignatius of LoyolaPatrick F. Healy, SJ,
inaugurated president Georgetown University in Washington, DC 1874 |
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