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Ash, Aesha (1977- )

Born in Rochester, New York, on December 30, 1977 to Costello and John Ash, Aesha Ash grew up in a strong, supportive working class family with two brothers, Spencer and Jonathan Ash. From the age of five Ash took jazz and tap

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Dec

30

1977

Spingarn Medal :Langston Huges

Poet Langston Hughes presented Spingarn Medal and cited as the poet laureate of the Negro race.

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Dec

30

1960

A Chicago Picketing

Dont Buy Where You Cant Work campaign began in Chicago with picketing of Chain stores on South Side, fall. The campaign spread to New York, Cleveland, Los Angeles and other cities and continued throughout the Depression.

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Dec

30

1929

Bo Diddley is born.

Bo Diddley was born Ellas Bates on Sunday December 30th 1928 on a small farm near the town of McComb, Mississippi, USA, in rural Pike County, close to the Louisiana border, the only child of Ethel Wilson and Eugene Bates. He had 3 half-brothers and

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Dec

30

1928

Josiah T. Walls

Born on this day in Winchester, VA, Josiah T. Walls was elected to the U.S. Congress for the state of Florida.

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Dec

30

1842

Walls, Josiah Thomas (1832–1905)

First elected to the Congress in 1870, Josiah T. Walls became Florida’s first elected African American Congressman. Walls was born a slave in Winchester, Virginia on December 30, 1842. He was conscripted by the Confederate Army and captured in Yorktown by Union forces in 1862. Walls then enlisted

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Dec

30

1842

Spingarn Award: Mordecai W. Johnson

Mordecai W. Johnson received Spingarn Medal for his work as the first Black president of Howard University.

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Dec

30

1929

Tiger Woods is an American golfer and one of the most successful and highly paid golfers of all time with a record streak of 264 weeks as the highest ranked player. He was born Eldrick Tont Woods on December 30, 1975, in Cypress, California to Earl and Kultida Woods and nicknamed

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Dec

30

1975

Bo Diddley - Birthday

Bates was born on December 30, 1928 in McComb, Mississippi.

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Dec

30

1928

Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority

Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporated.

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Dec

30

1929

80-Year-Old Woman Fulfills Lifelong Dream By Graduating from Alabama A&M University

Donzella Washington just fulfilled her lifelong goal of earning her bachelor’s degree, graduating from Alabama A&M University at 80-years-old, Rocket City Now

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Dec

30

2019

Physician, Dr Miles V Lynk, publishes the first Black medical journal, 1892

Physician, Dr Miles V Lynk, publishes the first Black medical journal, 1892

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Dec

30

1892

Two U.S. courts issued temporary injunctions to

Two U.S. courts issued temporary injunctions to prevent eviction of about seven hundred Black sharecroppers in Haywood and Fayetter counties, Tennessee.

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Dec

30

1960

Bo Diddley - Birthday

Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Otha Bates, December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known as Bo Diddley, was an American R&B singer, guitarist, songwriter and music producer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll, and influenced artists including Elvis Presley,[1] Buddy

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Dec

30

1928

Purpose – Nia

Fifth of the Kwanzaa Seven Principles (Nguzo

Source: My Daily Kwanzaa | When is Kwanzaa and my daily Kwanzaa practice

Dec

30

2020

Woods, Eldrick “Tiger” (1975- )

Eldrick “Tiger” Woods was born on December 30, 1975 in Cypress, California to parents Earl and Kultida Woods. Woods was given the nickname Tiger after a Vietnamese soldier and friend of his father’s. He grew up watching his father play golf and at the age of two, he was putting with

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Dec

30

1975

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