Rebecca Craft died of cancer on December 6, 1945 at the age of 58.

medicine pioner, Theodore Lawless, born, 1892

Grace Ann Bumbry participated in a benefit concert put on by Artists to End Hunger.

Lillian (Evans) Evanti, one of the first African American women to become an internationally prominent opera performer, was born in Washington D.C. in 1891.  Evanti was born into a prominent Washington, D.C. family.  Her father, Wilson Evans, was a medical doctor and teacher in the city.  He was the founder of Armstrong Technical High School and served many years as its principal.  Anne Brooks, Evanti’s mother, taught music in the public school system of Washington D.C.

Evanti received her education from Armstrong Technical High School and graduated from Howard University in 1917 with her bachelor’s degree in music.  A gifted student and performer, she was able to speak and sing in five different languages.  The following year she and Roy W. Tibbs, her Howard University music professor, married and had a son, Thurlow Tibbs. 

Combining her maiden and married names into the stage name, Evanti, a lyric soprano, began singing professionally in 1918.  Her career progressed slowly until she moved to France in 1925 where she became the first African American to sing with a European opera company.  From France she traveled around Europe and on occasion returned to the United States to perform.  During her travels she gave radio performances, sang in a variety of operas and in 1932 was given a chance to audition for the New York Metropolitan Opera.  Evanti was not asked to join the Company and for some time blamed the decision on racial discrimination.   

Despite the setback Evanti remained popular, performing in Latin America as well as Europe.  She gave a special command performance for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor in 1934.  She also performed concerts for the armed forces during World War II. 

In 1941, Evanti began performing at The National Negro Opera Company, the first black opera company established by Mary Cardwell to provide a venue for African American performers.  A series of Company performances of La Traviata, where Evanti sang the part of Violetta, was hugely successful and

Dr. Frantz O. Fanon author, dies in Washington, D.C.. He penned Black Skins, White Masks, and Wretched of the Earth

Lecture 19 of Clay Carsons Introduction to African-American History Course (HIST 166) concentrating on the Modern Freedom Struggle (Fall 2007). This lecture is entitled Barak Obamas American Dream. Recorded December 6, 2007 at Stanford University.

This course introduces the viewer to African-American history, with particular emphasis on the political thought and protest movements of the period after 1930, focusing on selected individuals who have shaped and been shaped by modern African-American struggles for freedom and justice. Clayborne Carson is a professor in the History Department at Stanford University.

Complete playlist for the course:

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Course syllabus:

http://www.stanford.edu/~ccarson/Hist...

More on Clayborne Carson:

http://www.stanford.edu/~ccarson/

Stanford University channel on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/stanford

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Jesse Blayton was born in Fallis, Oklahoma, on December 6, 1879.

James M. Harris of North Carolina elected president.

National Black labor convention met in Washington.

In Tucson, 500 store owners, Ariz sign pledges of nondiscrimination, 1960

Sgt. Thomas Shaw earned Congressional Medal of Honor.

Forty-fourth Congress (1875-77) convened with historic high of eight Blacks. One U.S. senator, Blanche K. Bruce, Mississippi. Seven Black congressmen: Jeremiah Haralson, Alabama; Josiah T. Walls, Florida; John R. Lynch, Mississippi; John A. Hyman, North Carolina; Charles E. Nash, Louisiana; Joseph H. Rainey, Robert Smalls, South Carolina.

The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery, was adopted by the 38th Congress. Ratification was completed December 6, 1865.

Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in Maryland, summer. She returned to the South nineteen times and brought out more than three hundred slaves.

P.B.S. Pinchback is elected president pro tem of the Louisiana Senate and acting lieutenant governor. He is the first African American to serve in these positions in state government.

Blues legend Huddie Leadbelly Ledbetter, dies

Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice despite opposition of civil rights organizations.

Adrian Malik Fenty was born to Philip and Jan Fenty, an interracial couple, on December 6, 1970, in Washington, D.

Grambling coach,Eddie Robinson who is the winniest coach

in college football hisrory, coaches his last game.

Lee Brown became Houstons first black mayor narrowly defeating businessman Rob Mosbacher.

Among the colleges and universities founded in 1869 were Clark, Claflin, Dillard and Tougaloo Colleges.

Congresswoman Mia Love represents Utahs 4th Congressional District and is the first black Republican woman and the first Haitian-American elected to the United States Congress.  She is also the first black person elected to Congress in Utah.  

Love was born Ludmya Bourdeau on December 6, 1975 in Brooklyn, New York to Jean-Maxine and Mary Bourdeau.  The Bourdeau family emigrated from Haiti to the United States in 1973. Due to visa restrictions two children, Jean and Cynthia, were left behind. Love was born before the expiration of an immigration law that offered green cards to immigrants with children born in the United States; Love’s parents later became naturalized citizens.   

Love was raised a Roman Catholic; her father worked for Nabisco, and her mother worked as a nurse.  The Bourdeau family moved to Norwalk, Connecticut in 1980, reuniting the family with the older children from Haiti.  Love graduated from Norwalk High School before completing a degree in fine arts in 1998 at the University of Hartford, which she attended on a partial scholarship.  Upon graduation, she worked as a flight attendant for Continental Airlines and became a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints.  She relocated to Utah and after four months of dating she married Jason Love, a missionary for the LDS Church.  

Love’s political career began as a community spokesperson in Saratoga Springs, Utah.  In 2004 she was elected to the Saratoga Springs City Council, serving six years in the office before being elected mayor.  She served as mayor from 2010 to 2014, guiding the city through an economic downturn and natural disasters such as wildfires and mudslides.  

Love ran for Congress in 2012, but was defeated by Democrat Jim Matheson.  During that first attempt at a congressional seat, Love gained valuable national exposure when she was selected to be a keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.  She served as the opening speaker for the Western Conservative Summit in 2013 and appointed to the Republican

Powhatan Beaty died on December 6, 1916, in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the age of seventy-nine.

Carolyn Jean Cheeks was born on June 25, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan.  In 1972 she received a B.S. degree in education from Western Michigan University.  Five years later she received an M.S. degree from the University of Michigan.  After graduating Carolyn Cheeks taught Business Education in the Detroit Public Schools.  She also married Bernard Kilpatrick.

In 1978 Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick was elected to the Michigan State House of Representatives, a position she held for eighteen years.  While in the Michigan House she became the first African American woman to serve on its Appropriations Committee.  

In 1996 Kilpatrick was elected to Congress from Michigan’s 13th Congressional District.  There she became the first African American woman to serve on the powerful House Appropriations Committee.  She is also the first African American member of Congress to sit on the United States Air Force Academy Board which oversees the program of the U.S. Air Force Academy.   

Congresswoman Kilpatrick is now serving in her sixth term.  On December 6, 2006 she was unanimously elected Chairperson of the Congressional Black Caucus. Her son, Kwame, was elected to fill her Michigan House seat in 1996.  In 2001 he became at 30 the youngest Mayor of Detroit. 

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