#FreshRadio Black History x #TDIF This Day In Freshness Feb 13, 2013
13 February 2013 TDIF
Ash Wednesday…Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Season of Lent. It is a season of penance, reflection, and fasting which prepares us for Christ’s Resurrection on Easter Sunday, through which we attain redemption.
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1973 – Wm. Desjardin patents corner cleaner attachment
Gertrude E. Downing and William Desjardin Corner Cleaner Attachment, Patent No. 3,715,772 on February 13, 1973
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1970 – Joseph Searles admitted NYSEX
The New York Stock Exchange admits its first Black member, Joseph Searles.
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1957 – On this day the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is founded in New Orl
On this day the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is founded in New Orleans, LA.
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1957 – Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized
Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized at New Orleans meeting with Martin Luther King Jr. as president.
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1923 – 1st Black Pro basketball team — “The Renaissance”
The first Black professional basketball team “The Renaissance” organized.
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1907 – Wendell P. Dabney establishes The Union.
Wendell P. Dabney establishes The Union. The Cincinnati, Ohio paper’s motto is “For no people can become great without being united, for in union there is strength.”
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1892 – The first African American performers
The first African American performers, the World’s Fair Colored Opera Company, appear at Carnegie Hall.
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1882 – Death of Henry Highland Garnet (66), diplomat and
Death of Henry Highland Garnet (66), diplomat and protest leader, in Monrovia, Liberia.
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1818 – Absalom Jones, the first African American Episcopa
Absalom Jones, the first African American Episcopal priest ordained in the U.S. , dies.
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1635 – America’s first public school, the Boston Latin School, opened in Boston. Black
America’s first public school, the Boston Latin School, opened in Boston. Black students were excluded from attending.
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Happy Birthday to Henry Rollins, I’m sure you’ve seen him in some movies…this is one of my guilty pleasure rock records…former lead vocalist of the Henry Rollins band…I used to work in a warehouse in Richmond, VA in my early 20’s and the rock station played throughout the building and this came on and everybody used to sing it lol!
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