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October 2010
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"…and you yourself a sword will pierce."
Scripture of the month: Luke 3-35
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1993 Condoleezza Rice is named provost at Stanford University, becoming the
youngest person and the first black to hold this position.
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2
1975 Joseph W. Hatcher becomes Florida's first African American supreme court
justice since Reconstruction. |
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St. Gregory the Great
1838 Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery disguised as a sailor. |
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1957 Arkansas governor Orval Faubus calls out the National Guard to bar African
American students from entering a Little Rock high school.
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1960 Leopold Sedar Senghor, poet and politician, is elected president of
Senegal.
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Labor Day
1996 Eddie Murray joins Hank Aaron and Willie Mays as the only baseball players
with at least 500 home runs and 3,000 hits.
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1954 Integration of public schools begins in Washington DC and Baltimore, MD. |
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Birth of Mary
1981 Roy Wilkins, executive of the director of the NAACP dies in New York City.
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St. Peter Claver
1915 Dr. Carter G. Woodson founds the Association for the Study of Negro Life
and History. |
10
1961 Jomo Kenyatta returns to Kenya from exile during which he had been elected
president of the Kenya National Africa Union. |
11
1999 17-year old Serena Williams defeats Martina Hingis to win her first major
tennis championship, the US Open. |
12
1977 Steven Biko, leader of the black consciousness movement in South Africa
dies in police custody in Pretoria.
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13
St. John Chrysotom
1913 Dancer, Tony Award winner and famed Motown choreographer Cholly Atkins is
born in Pratt City, AL,
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14
 Triumph of the Cross
1980 Dorothy Doodling Freebee, physician and second president of the National
Council for Negro Women dies in Washington, DC.
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15
Our Lady of Sorrows
1963 four little girls killed in Church bombing Birmingham, AL.
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St. Cornelius and St. Cyprian
1925 Blues great B.B. King is born in Indianola, MS
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St. Robert Bellamine
1983 Vanessa Williams, Miss New York becomes the first black Miss America.
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1980 Cosmonaut Arnoldo Tamayo, a Cuban becomes the first black to travel to
space. |
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St. Januarius
1989 Gordon Park's Learning Tree is among the first films listed on the
National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
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20
1830 Beginning of Black National Negro Convention Movement convenes in
Philadelphia for the purpose of abolishing slavery.
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St. Matthew
1998 Florence "Flo-Jo" Griffin-Joyner, Olympic gold medalist in track dies at
39 from an apparent heart seizure in Mission Viejo, CA.
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22
St. Maurice & the Theban Legion
1915 Xavier University, the first African American Catholic college, opens in
New Orleans.
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1993 South Africa's parliament creates a multiracial body to oversee the end of
exclusive white control of the nation.
 National Association of Black Catholic
Administrators Annual Meeting of the Membership
2010 National Black Catholic Men's Conference
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Our Lady of Mercy
1923 Nancy Green, the world's first living trademark (Aunt Jemima), is struck
and killed by an automobile in Chicago.
Project Rachel - Rachel's Vineyard
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Barbara W. Hancock, first Black female White House Fellow 1974
1911 Dr. Eric Williams, future president of Trinidad and Tobago, is born
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Saints Cosmas and Damian
1937 Bessie Smith "Empress of the Blues", died in Clarksdale, MS.
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St. Vincent de Paul
1944 Stephanie Pogue, artist and professor is born in Shelby, NC.
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1829 David Walker, a freeborn black, publishes a provocative pamphlet calling
for slaves worldwide to revolt against their white masters.
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Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael Archangels
1980 The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture opens a new $3.8
million building in New York City.
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St. Jerome
1935 John R. Mathis, singer with more than 50 gold and platinum records, born
in Gilmer, TX.
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