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An Advent Reflection for the Present Age

An Advent Reflection for the Present Age By Rev. Dr. Missiouri L McPhee, 11th Episcopal District Advent comes from the Latin word, “adventus,” which is translated as “coming.”…

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Ambassador Richard Lewis Baltimore III was born on December 31, 1947 in New York City, New York to Judge Richard Lewis Baltimore, Jr. and Lois Madison-Baltimore. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in International Affairs from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 1969 and earned

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Fred McKinley Jones is certainly one of the most important Black inventors ever based on the sheer number of inventions he formulated as well as their

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(1875) Congressman John R. Lynch, “Speech on the Civil Rights Bill”

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Southwestern Christian College (1948- )

Southwestern Christian College, a junior college with a four year Bible degree program, was largely the brainchild of George P. Bowser (1874-1950), an influential African American preacher in Churches of Christ. A former Methodist minister, Bowser received biblical and ministerial training at

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(1963) Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”

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Henderson, George Washington (c. 1850-1936)

Born a slave in Clark County, Virginia, George Washington Henderson graduated from the University of Vermont in 1877 and became the first African American to be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), the highest academic honor society. He later received a bachelor’s degree in divinity from Yale

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Christianity, religion founded in Palestine by the followers of Jesus . One of the worlds major religions, it predominates in Europe and the Americas, where it has been a powerful historical force and cultural influence, but it also claims adherents in virtually every country of the

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Zephaniah, Benjamin (1958 - )

Benjamin Zephaniah, poet, playwright, novelist and activist, was born on April 15, 1958, the first of eight children, in Birmingham, England. Zephaniah grew up in Wandsworth until the age of nine when his mother, a Jamaican nurse, fled his father, a postman from Barbados. Leaving behind his twin

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15

1958

(1797) Prince Hall Speaks To The African Lodge, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Five years after his presentation at Charles Town, Prince Hall again addresses his fellow Masons. In an address delivered to the African Lodge at West Cambridge, Massachusetts on June 24, 1797, Hall challenges those Masons to work for the elimination of slavery and the establishment of full civil

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24

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Ghana became an independent state

March 6th, 1957, the Gold Coast gained its independence from Great

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6

1957

(1865) Abraham Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address”

On Saturday March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated and began his second term as President. His address to the audience of thousands of spectators was brief, one of the shortest inaugural addresses on record. The Civil War was drawing to a close as Union Armies were bearing down

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James & Lydia Sims

During World War II, Lydia Sims moved from Newark, New Jersey, to Spokane with her husband, James Sims, an Army Air Force soldier stationed at Geiger Airfield. At the end of the war, the Sims family decided to remain in Spokane. For 10 years they lived in the Garden Springs housing

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(1808) Rev. Peter Williams, “An Oration On The Abolition Of The Slave Trade”

On March 2, 1807 Congress enacted a law that banned the external slave trade beginning January 1, 1808. With that act enslaved persons could no longer be brought to the United States. Although the law would be frequently violated until the eve of the Civil War, many black and white anti-slavery

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Aba Women's Riots (November-December 1929)

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Passing of Civil Rights Bill

U.S. Congress pass Civil Rights Bill banning racial discrimination in sale or rental of approximately 80 per cent of the nations housing.

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10

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Dawson, William Levi (1898-1990)

William Levi Dawson was an African Americancomposer, choir director, and professor specializing in black religious folkmusic. He was born on September 26,1899, in Anniston, Alabama to Eliza Starkey and George Dawson, thefirst of their seven children. His father, a former slave, was an

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(1957) Dwight Eisenhower, “Address on Little Rock"

The Little Rock Crisis erupted in September 1957 when Arkansas Governor Orval M. Faubus used state National Guard troops to prevent nine African American students from attending the then all-white Central High School. On September 20, Federal Judge Ronald Davis ordered Governor Faubus to remove

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(1964), Dr. Martin Luther King, “Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize”

On December 10, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King became only the second African American (after Ralph Bunche) to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. His acceptance speech appears

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Church Of God In Christ, Memphis (1907- )

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Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Born: 5/7/1905 Seattle, WashingtonLavizzo-Mourey heads the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the largest healthcare foundation in the U.S. She became the CEO in 2003, a position which has her overseeing an estimated 800 grants, a $10 billion endowment and annual disbursements of more than $450

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NAACP report said 1946 was one of the grimmest years in the history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The report deplored reports of blow torch killing and eye-gouging of Negro veterans freshly returned from a war to end torture and racial extermination and said

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1947

Williams, Camilla (1919-2012)

Professional opera singer Camilla Williams was born October 18, 1919 in Danville, Virginia to Fannie Carey Williams and Cornelius Booker Williams. The youngest of four siblings, Williams began singing at a young age and was performing at her local church by age eight. At age 12, she began taking

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Perkins, Marvin (1963– )

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7

1958

(1868) Rev. Henry McNeal Turner, “I Claim the Rights of a Man”

African Methodist Episcopal minister and later Bishop Henry McNeal Turner emerged immediately after the Civil War as one of the most ardent defenders of African Ameriacn rights. Turner was also among the first group of Reconstruction-era African American elected officials. In July 1868, Turner was

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Ernest Davis commonly referred to as “Ernie” by friends and colleagues, was an American football halfback who passed away at the mere age of 23 due to complications from leukemia. Born in New Salem, Pennsylvania on December 14, 1939, Davis was a popular athlete in his school and college

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Henry McNeal Turner Born

Henry McNeal Turner was born on what is now Hannah Circuit, near Newberry, which was then in Abbeville County, South Carolina. Young Turner was bound out to the hardest king of labor in the cotton fields and the blacksmiths trade in Abbeville until his manhood at age

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1834

The White House released a statement which said

The White House released a statement which said that government policy is not to intermingle colored and white enlisted personnel in the same regimental organizations.

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Walker, Darren (1959– )

Philanthropist Darren Walker is the tenth president of the seventy-seven-year-old Ford Foundation, the second largest philanthropy in the world. Walker was born August 28, 1959, at a charity hospital in Lafayette, Louisiana, to a single mother and was raised in East Texas. He received two degrees

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