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May 2008 | June 2008
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Scripture of the Month: Acts 3-4 "Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and come to rest on each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim."

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
        1
Ascension Day

St. Joseph the Worker

Gwendolyn Brooks, 1st African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for "Annie Allen" 1950
 

2
St. Athanasius

Poor People's March to Washington began 1968

3
Sts. Philip and James

Ernest N. Morial, first Black Mayor of New Orleans, LA 1978

4
Freedom Rides started in protest to segregated bus terminals 1961
 
5
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Eugene A. Marino, SSJ, 1st Black Archbishop in U.S. Atlanta, GA 1988

Terry Steib, SVD, installed as Catholic Bishop of Memphis, TN 1993
 

6
St. Martin De Porres canonized a Saint, Rome 1962

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7
Fenton Johnson, one of the first Black writers to emphasize Black awareness born 1888

1941: Natural Man, a play by Theodore Browne, premieres in New York City, a production of the American Negro Theatre, founded by Abram Hill and Frederick O'Neal
 

8
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters founded 1926

1965: The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians is founded by Muhal Richard Abrams.
 

9
John Brown, abolitionist and Martyr at Harpers Ferry is born 1800

 

10
Bl. Damien of Molokai

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Nelson Mandela inaugurated as 1st Black President, South Africa

1968: A public school in Brooklyn NY is named for noted scientist and inventor Lewis H. Latimer
 

11
Pentecost

Mother's Day (US)

William Grant Still, dean of black classical composers is born 1895
 

12
Oscar de Priest III, Congressman elected 1951

1926: Mervyn Dymally, California's first African American Lieutenant governor is born in Cedros, Trinidad
 

13
George Stallings is ordained the first Black Catholic Bishop Stalling broke with the Roman Catholic Church in 1989, citing its failure to meet the needs of black Catholics

Joe Lewis, the Brown Bomber" heavyweight champion born in Lexington AL 1914
 

14
St. Matthias

1913: Clara Stanton Jones, first African American president of the American Library Association, in born in St. Louis, MO

1969: John B. McLendon becomes the first black coach in ABA when he signs a 2-year contract with Denver Nuggets
 

15
St. Isadore the Farmer

Arthur Ashe chosen U.S. Davis Cup Tennis Team 1963

1946: Camilia Williams appears in the title role of Madame Butterfly with New York City Opera, the first black female singer to sign a contract with a major US Opera company
 

16
St. Brendan

1929: John Conyers Jr., founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, is born

17
St. Paschal Baylon

Edward K. Braxton ordained Catholic Bishop St. Louis, MO 1995

The US Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional in Brown VS Board of Education,1987

18
Trinity

Mary McLeod Bethune educator and founder of the National Council Of Negro Women died Dayton Beach, FL 1955:

1946: Reginald Martinez Jackson (Reggie Jackson), star baseball player for the New York Yankees, is born in Wyncote PA. He sets or ties seven World Series records
 

19
Malcolm X born 1925

Patricia R. Harris, first Black American Ambassador 1965

1993: University of Virginia professor Rita Dove is appointed US Poet Laureate

20
St. Bernadine of Siena

1868: P.B.S. Pinchback and James J. Harris are the first African American delegates to the Republican National Convention

21
National Black Catholic VI Congress, Washington, DC 1987

Thomas "Fats" Waller born 1904

African American students enroll in classes at Oberlin College Oberlin OH

1970: National Guard mobilized at Ohio State University, interracial student demonstrators demand an end to ROTC program and more admission for black students
 

22
Claude McKay, novelist, poet died 1948

Bernard Shaw, journalist and principal anchor Cable News Network born 1940 in Chicago

1967: Noted Poet Langston Hughes dies in New York City

23
Florence Mills opened in "Shuffle Along" 1921

Jamaican national figure Samuel Sharpe is hanged

24
Lincoln University 1st Black College founded by Presbyterians, PA 1854

1905 Distinguished educator Hilda Davis born in Washington DC

1954: Peter Marshall Murray is installed as president of New York County Medical Society, the first African American physician to head an AMA affiliate

25
Body & Blood of Christ

Lillie Mae Jackson, pioneer Human Rights Champion Born 1889

1963 African Liberation Day is declared at the conference of the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
 

26
St. Philip Neri

Memorial Day (US)

Senate Passes Voting Rights Bill 1965

1926 Renowned Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis is born in Alton IL

27
St. Augustine of Canterbury

Dorie Miller, messman, is awarded the Navy Cross for heroism at Pearl Harbor 1942

1958 Ernest Green is the first Black to graduate from Central High School in Little Rock, AR

28
Sojourner Truth participates in Women's Rights Convention 1851

1981 Jazz Pianist Mary Lou Williams dies in Durham NC

29
American Bowling Congress eliminated racial designations

1973 Tom Bradley becomes the first African American mayor of Los Angeles

30
Countee Cullen, poet born 1903

Willie Mays scores his 1,950th run 1971

1822 Denmark Vesey's conspiracy to free slaves of Charleston SC and surrounding areas is thwarted by a slave who betrays plot to whites
 

31
The Visitation

Josephites became independent American Community 1893

1955 the US Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"

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