May 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." |
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Ascension DaySt. Joseph the Worker
Gwendolyn Brooks, 1st African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for "Annie
Allen" 1950
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St. AthanasiusPoor People's March to Washington began 1968 |
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Sts. Philip and JamesErnest N. Morial, first Black Mayor of New Orleans,
LA 1978 |
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Freedom Rides started in protest to segregated bus terminals 1961
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5
 FOCCUS Coach Training
Webinars: Open RegistrationEugene A. Marino, SSJ, 1st Black Archbishop in U.S. Atlanta, GA 1988
Terry
Steib, SVD, installed as Catholic Bishop of Memphis, TN 1993
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St. Martin De Porres canonized a Saint, Rome 1962
Arusi Network, Inc.'s
Family Bridges - Chicagoland Healthy Marriage Initiative
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Fenton Johnson, one of the first Black writers to emphasize Black awareness
born 18881941: 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
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters founded 19261965: The Association for
the Advancement of Creative Musicians is founded by Muhal Richard Abrams.
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John Brown, abolitionist and Martyr at Harpers Ferry is born 1800 |
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Bl. Damien of Molokai
FOCCUS Coach Training
Seminars: Church of the Holy Spirit
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
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 PentecostMother's Day
(US)
William Grant Still, dean of black classical composers is born 1895
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Oscar de Priest III, Congressman elected 19511926: Mervyn Dymally,
California's first African American Lieutenant governor is born in Cedros,
Trinidad
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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 CatholicsJoe Lewis, the Brown Bomber" heavyweight champion born
in Lexington AL 1914
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St. Matthias1913: 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
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St. Isadore the FarmerArthur 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
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St. Brendan1929: John Conyers Jr., founder of the Congressional Black
Caucus, is born |
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St. Paschal BaylonEdward K. Braxton ordained Catholic Bishop St. Louis,
MO 1995
The US Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional in
Brown VS Board of Education,1987 |
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TrinityMary 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
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Malcolm X born 1925Patricia R. Harris, first Black American Ambassador
1965
1993: University of Virginia professor Rita Dove is appointed US Poet
Laureate |
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St. Bernadine of Siena1868: 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 1987Thomas "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
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Claude McKay, novelist, poet died 1948Bernard Shaw, journalist and
principal anchor Cable News Network born 1940 in Chicago
1967: Noted Poet Langston Hughes dies in New York City |
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Florence Mills opened in "Shuffle Along" 1921Jamaican 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 |
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Body & Blood of ChristLillie 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
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St. Philip NeriMemorial Day (US)
Senate Passes Voting Rights Bill 1965
1926 Renowned Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis is born in Alton IL |
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St. Augustine of CanterburyDorie 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 |
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Sojourner Truth participates in Women's Rights Convention 18511981 Jazz
Pianist Mary Lou Williams dies in Durham NC |
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American Bowling Congress eliminated racial designations1973 Tom Bradley
becomes the first African American mayor of Los Angeles |
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Countee Cullen, poet born 1903Willie 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
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The VisitationJosephites became independent American Community 1893
1955 the US Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate
speed" |
