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B12191875 Carter G. Woodson born in New Canton, Buckingham Cou
B1219     nty, Virginia.


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S12011641 Massachusetts became the first colony to give statutory rec
S1201     ognition to slavery.  Other colonies followed:  Connecticut
S1201     1650; Virginia, 1661; Maryland, 1663;  New York and New Jer
S1201     sey, 1664; South Carolina, 1682; Rhode Island and Pennsyl
S1201     vania, 1700; North Carolina. 1715; Georgia, 1750.
S12251760 Juptier Hammon, New York slave who was probably the first
S1225     black poet, published An Evening Throught:  Salvation by
S1225     Christ, with Penetential Cries.
S12311775 Alarmed by imapct of the dunmore proclamation, Washington
S1223     reversed himslf and authorized the enlistment of free bla
S1223     cks.
S12051784 Death of Poet Philis Wheatley, in Boston.
S12041807 Death of Prince Hall, activist and Masonic leader, in Bos
S1204     ton.
S12231815 Henry Highland Garnet, minister, abolitionist and diplomat,
S1223     born a slave in Kent County, Maryland.
S12281816 American Colonization Society organized in hall of the House
S1228     of Representatives.
S12041833 American Anti-Slavery Society organized.
S12251837 Seminole Indian force defeated by American troops at Battle
S1225     of Okeechobee.  Black chief John Horse shared command with
S1225     Alligator Sam Jones and wild Cat.  The Cheyney State Train
S1225     ing School was established in Pennsylvania.  Charles Lenox
S1225     Remond began his career as an antislavery agent.  Remond
S1225     was one of the first blacks employed as a lecturer by the
S1225     antislavery movement.  Mirror of Liberty, Pioneer black mag
S1225     azine, published in New York City by abolitionist David Rug
S1225     gles.
S12031847 Frederick Douglass published the first issue of his news
S1203     paper, the North Star.
S12261848 William and Ellen Craft escaped from slavery in Georgia.
S1226     Mrs. Craft impersonated a slaveholder and her husband, Wil
S1226     liam, assumed the role of her servant in one of the most
S1226     dramatic of the slave escapes.
S12061849 Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in Maryland, summer.
S1206     She returned to the South nineteen times and brought out
S1206     more than three hundred slaves.
S12021959 John Brown hanged at Charleston, Virginia.
S12161959 John Copeland and Shields Green, two black members of Johns
S1216     Brown's band, hanged at Charleston.  The last slave ship,
S1216     the Clothilde, landed shipment of slaves at Mobile Bay,
S1216     Alabama.
S12181959 South Carolina was declared an "independent commonwealth."
S1218     BLACKS IN CONFEDERACY:  Confederacy was the first to recog
S1218     nize that blacks were major factors in the war.  South im
S1218     pressed slaves to work in mines, repair railroads and build
S1218     fortifications, thereby releasing a disproportionately large
S1218     percentage of able-bodied whites for direct war service.  A
S1218     handful of blacks enlisted in rebel army, but few, if any,
S1218     fired guns in anger.  Regiment of fourteen hundred free bl
S1218     acks received official recognition in New Orleans but was
S1218     not called into service.  It later became, by a strange mu
S1218     tation of history, the first black regiment officially reco
S1218     gnized by the Union army.
S12181959 BLACKS IN UNION ARMY:  The 185,000 black soldiers in the
S1218     Union army were organized into 166 all black regiments (145
S1218     infantry, 7 cavalry, 12 heavy artilery, 1 light artillery,
S1218     1 engineer).  Largest number of black soldiers came from
S1218     Louisiana (24,052), followed by Kentucky (23, 703) and Ten
S1218     nessee (20,133).  Pennsylvania contributed more black sold
S1218     iers than any other Northern state (8,612). Black soldiers
S1218     participated in 449 battles, 39 of them major engagements.
S1218     Sixteen black soldiers received Congressional Medals of Ho
S1218     nor for gallantry in action.  Some 37,638 black soldiers
S1218     lost their lives during the war.  Black soldiers generally
S1218     received poor equipment and were forced to do a large amount
S1218     of fatigue duty.  Until 1864, black soldiers (from private
S1218     to chaplain) received seven dollars a month whereas white
S1218     soldiers received from thirteen to one hundred dollars a mo
S1218     nth.  In 1863 black units, with four exceptions (Fifth Mass
S1218     achusetts Cavalry, Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Massachu
S1218     setts Volunteers and twenty-ninth Connecticut Volunteers),
S1218     were officially designated United States Colored Troops
S1218     (USCT).  Since the War Department discouraged applications
S1218     from blacks, there were few commissioned officers.  The high
S1218     est ranking of the seventy-five to one hundred black offi
S1218     cers was Lt. Col. Alexander T. Augustana, a surgeon.  Some
S1218     200,000 black civilians were employed by Union army as la
S1218     borers, cooks, teamster and servants.
S12181959 BLACKS IN UNION NAVY:  One out of every four Union sailors
S1218     was a black.  Of the 118,044 sailors in the Union Navy,
S1218     29,511 were blacks.  At least four black sailors won Con
S1218     gressional Medals of Honor.
S12011862 President Lincoln, in message to Congress, recommended the
S1201     use of federal bonds to provide compensation for states that
S1201     abolished slavery before 1900.
S12031864 Twenty-fifth Corps, largest all-black unit in history of
S1203     U.S. Army, established in Army of the James.
S12101864 Mixed cavalry force, including Fifth and Sixth Colored Cava
S1201     lry regiments, invaded southwest Virginia and destroyed salt
S1201     mines at Saltville.  Sixth Cavalry was especially brilliant
S1201     in an engagement near Marion, Virginia.
S12151864 In one of the decisive battles of the war, two brigades of
S1215     black troops helped crush one of the South's finest armies
S1215     at the Battle of Nashville.  Black troops opened the battle
S1215     on the first day and successfully engaged the right of the
S1215     rebel line.  On the second day Col. Charles R. Thompson's
S1215     Black brigade made brilliant charge up Overton Hill. Thir
S1215     teenth U.S.C.T. sustained more casualties than any other
S1215     regiment involved in the battle.
S12181865 Thriteenth Amendment ratified.
S12251865 Reports from all over the South said freedmen had abandoned
S1225     plantations in expectation of a general distribution of la
S1225     nd.  General Rufus Saxton, Freedmen's Bureau commander in
S1225     South Carolina, said "the impression is universal among the
S1225     freedmen that they are to have the abondoned and confiscated
S1225     lands, in hone-steads of forty acres, in January next." Atl
S1225     anta University, Shaw University and Virginia Union Univer
S1225     sity founded.
S12031867 Virginia constitutional convention (twenty-five blacks, eig
S1203     hty whites) met in Richmond.  Because of Political and le
S1203     gal complications, the Virginia constitution was not adop
S1203     ted until July 6, 1869.
S12091867 Georgia constitutional convention (33 blacks, 137 whites)
S1209     open in Atlanta.
S12061869 National black labor convention met in Washington.  James
S1206     M. Harris of North Carolina elected president.  Among the
S1206     colleges and universities founded in 1869 were Clark, Claf
S1206     lin, Dillard and Tougaloo Colleges.
S12061870 Joseph H. Rainey, first black in the House of Representa
S1206     tives, sworn in as congressman from South Carolina.
S12161870 Colored Methodist Episcopal Church organized in Jackson,
S1216     Tennessee.
S12201870 Jefferson F. Long of Macon, Ga., elected to an unexpired
S1220     term in the Forty-first Congress.  Georgia Democrats car
S1220     ried state election with a campaign of violence and politi
S1220     cal intimidation.  Robert H. Wood, Mississippi political
S1220     leader, elected mayor of Natchez.  Allen University, Bene
S1220     dict College and LeMoyne-Owen College established.
S12191871 Democratic governor elected in Georgia in campaign marked
S1219     by violence and acting lieutenant governor.
S12091872 P. B. S. Pinchback was sworn in as governor of Louisiana
S1209     after H. C. Warmoth was impeached "for high crimes and mis
S1209     deameanors."
S12121872 Attorney General George Williams sent a telegram to "Acting
S1212     Governor Pinchback," Saying that the black politician "was
S1212     recognized by the President as the lawful executive of Lou
S1212     isiana."
S12011873 Forty-third Congress (1873-75) convened with seven black
S1201     congressmen:  Richard H. Cain, Robert Brown Elliott, Joseph
S1201     H. Rainey and Alonzo J. Ransier, South Carolina; James T.
S1201     Rapier, Alabama; Josiah T. Walls, Florida; John R. Lynch,
S1201     Mississippi.  Mifflin Wister Gibb elected city judge in Lit
S1201     tle Rock and became the first black to hold such a position.
S1201     Bennett College, Wiley College, and Alabama State College
S1201     founded.
S12071874 White Democrats killed seventy-five Republicans in massacre
S1207     at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
S12211874 President Grant issued proclamation on violence in Missis
S1221     sippi.
S12061875 Forty-fourth Congress (1875-77) convened with historic high
S1206     of eight blacks.  One U.S. senator, Blanche K. Bruce, Miss
S1206     issippi.  Seven black congressmen: Jeremiah Haralson, Ala
S1206     bama; Josiah T. Walls, Florida; John R. Lynch, Mississippi;
S1206     John A. Hyman, North Carolina; Charles E. Nash, Louisiana;
S1206     Joseph H. Rainey, Robert Smalls, South Carolina.
S12161875 William J. Whippers elected judge of the circuit court of
S1216     Charleston by South Carolina General Assembly.   Governor
S1216     Daniel H. Chamberlain, acting in concert with white Demo
S1216     crats and conservatives, refused to sign his commission.
S12251875 Charles Caldwell, militant black militia officer, assassi
S1225     nated in Clinton, Mississippi.  Alabama A&M College, Knox
S1225     ville College and Lane College established.
S12051881 Forty-seventh Congress (1881-83) convened.  Two black congre
S1205     ssmen, Robert Smalls, South Carolina; John R. Lynch, Missis
S1205     sippi.
S12241881 Exodus of five thousand blacks from Edgefield County, South
S1224     Carolina.  Migrants, protesting exploitation and violence,
S1224     settled in Arkansas.  Tennessee started modern segregation
S1224     movement with Jim Crow railroad car and was followed by Flo
S1224     rida (1887), Mississippi (1888), Texas (1889), Louisiana
S1224     (1890), Alabama, Kentucky, Arkansas and Georgia (1891),
S1224     South Carolina (1898), North Carolina (1899), Virginia
S1224     (1900), Maryland (1904), Oklahoma (1907).  United Order of
S1224     True Reformer established.
S12031883 Forty-eighth Congress (1883-85)  convened,  Two blacks repr
S1203     esentatives, James E. O'Hara, North Carolina; Robert Smalls,
S1203     South Carolina.  George L. Ruffin appointed city judge in
S1203     Boston.  Fifty-three blacks reported lynched in 1883.
S12071885 Forty-ninth Congress (1885-87)  convened.  Two black congre
S1207     ssmen: James E. O'Hara, North Carolina; Robert Smalls, South
S1207     Carolina.  Seventy-four blacks reported lynched in 1885.
S12021891 Fifty-second Congress convened. One black congressman:  Hen
S1202     ry P. Cheatham, North Carolina.  One hundred and thirteen
S1202     blacks were reported lynched iN 1891. North Carolina A&T
S1202     College, Delaware State College and West Virginia State Col
S1202     lege established.
S12021895 Fifty-fourth Congress (1895-97) convened.  One black congre
S1202     ssman: George W. Murray, South Carolina.
S12041895 South Carolina Constitutional Convention adopted new consti
S1204     tution with "understanding clause" designed to eliminate
S1204     black voters.  One hundred and thirteen blacks were reported
S1204     lynched in 1895.  Fort Valley State College established.
S12041899 Fifty-sixth Congress convened.  One black congressman:
S1204     George H. White, North Carolina.  Eighty-five blacks repor
S1204     ted lynched in 1899.
S12261908 Jackson Johnson defeated Tommy Burns at Syney, Australia,
S1226     for heavyweight Championship.  Eighty-nine blacks reported
S1226     lynched in 1908.
S12191910 First city ordinace requiring white and black residential
S1219     areas passed by Baltimore City Council.  Similar laws were
S1219     passed in Norfolk, Richmond, Roanoke, Greensboro, St. Louis,
S1219     Oklahoma City, Dallas and Louisville.  Norfolk Journal and
S1219     Guide established under the leadership of P. B. Young Sr.
S1219     Pittsburgh Courier founded.  North Carolina College founded.
S1219     Sixty-seven blacks reported lynched in 1910.
S12041915 Ku Klux Klan received charter from Fulton County, Ga., Supe
S1204     rior Court.  Modern Klan spread to Alabama and other South
S1204     ern state and reached height of its influence in the twen
S1204     ties.  By 1924 the organization was strong in Oklahoma,
S1204     Indiana, California, Oregon, Indiana, and Ohio.  At the hei
S1204     ght of its influence, the organization had an estimated
S1204     four million members.  Great Migration began.  Approximately
S1204     two million Southern blacks moved to Northern industrial
S1204     centers in the following decades.  NAACP led protest demon
S1204     strations against showing of movie Birth of a Nation.
S12111917 Thirteen black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in
S1211     Houston riot.  Jazz migration began.  Joe Oliver left New Or
S1211     leans and settled in Chicago and was joined by other stars.
S1211     Thirty-six blacks reportes lynched in 1917.  Spingarn Medal
S1211     presented to Harry T. Burleigh, composer and singer, for ex
S1211     cellence in th field of music.
S12281918 Death of George H. White (66) last of the post Reconstruc
S1228     tion congressman, Philadelphia.  Sixty blacks were reported
S1228     lynched in 1918.  Spingarn Medal awarded to William Stanley
S1228     Braithwaite, poet, literary critic and editor, for distin
S1228     guished achievement in literature.
S12211921 Death of P.B.S. Pinchback (84), major Reconstruction politi
S1221     cian, Washington, D.C.  The Negro Renaissance, a period of
S1221     extraordinary activity on the part of black artists and ex
S1221     traordinary receptivity on the part of the white public,
S1221     reached a peak in the twenties.  Among the writers who con
S1221     tributed to the movement were Claude Mckay, Harlem Shadows,
S1221     1922; Jean Toomer, Cane, 1923; Alain Locke, The New Negro,
S1221     1925; Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues, 1926 Countee Cullen,
S1221     Color, 1925.  Doctor of philosophy degrees awarded for first
S1221     time to black women - Eva B. Dykes, English, Radcliffe; Sad
S1221     ie T. Mossell, Economics, University of Pennsylvania.; Geor
S1221     giana R. Simpson, German, University of Chicago.  Fifty-nine
S1221     blacks were reported lynched in 1921.  Spingarn Medal award
S1221     ed to actor Charles S. Gilpin for his performance in the ti
S1221     tle role of Emperor Jones.
S12041927 Duke Ellington opened at the Cotton Club in Harlem.  Presi
S1204     dent Coolidge commuted Marcus Garvey's sentence.  Garvey
S1204     was taken to New Orleans and deprted to his native Jamaica.
S1204     Spingarn Medal awarded to Anthony Overton, publisher, insur
S1204     ance executive and cosmetics manufacturer, for his achieve
S1204     ments as a businessman.
S12301929 Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporated.  "Don't Buy Where
S1230     You Can't Work" campign began in Chicago with picketing of
S1230     Chain stores on South Side, fall.  The campaign spread to
S1230     New York, Cleveland, Los Angeles and other cities and con
S1230     tinued throughout the Depression.  Mordecai W. Johnson re
S1230     ceived Spingarn Medal for his work as the first black presi
S1230     dent of Howard University.
S12191930 James Weldon Johnson resigned as executive secretary of the
S1219     NAACP, citing health reasons.  Spingarn Medal awarded to
S1219     Henry A. Hunt, Principal, Fort Valley High and Industrial
S1219     School, Fort Valley, Ga., for his pioneering work as an edu
S1219     cator.  Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, founded at Howard Uni
S1219     veristy in 1913, incorporated.
S12151934 Death of Maggis Lena Wlaker (69), first black woman to head
S1215     a bank, in Richmond.  Spingarn Medal awarded to William Tay
S1215     lor Burwell Williams, Tuskegee dean and agent of the Jeanes
S1215     and Slater funds, for his achievements as an educator.
S12051935 National Council of Negro Women founded in New York City
S1205     with Mary McLeod Bethune as president.  Langston Hughes'
S1205     play, The Multatto, began a long run on Broadway.  Swing Age
S1205     began with the commerical success of big bands.  The decade
S1205     of the thirties was the heyday for big bands of Chick Webb,
S1205     Andy Kirk, Cab Calloway, count Basis, Jimmie Lunceford and
S1205     Duke Ellington.  Mary McLeod Bethune awarded Spingarn Medal
S1205     for her work as founder-president of Bethune Cookman College
S1205     and her national leadership.
S12081936 NAACP filed first suit in campaign to equalize the salaries
S1208     of black and white teachers.  Gibbs v Board of Education in
S1208     Montgomery County, Md., was the first of a succession of
S1208     suits that eliminated wage differentials betweeen black and
S1208     white teachers.  Michigan Chronicle founded by Louis E. Mar
S1208     tin. Spingarn Medal presented to John Hope posthumously for
S1208     his achievement as president  of Morehouse College and for
S1208     his creative leadership in the founding of the Atlanta Uni
S1208     versity Center.
S12121938 U.S. Supreme Court rules in Missouri ex rel Gaines that a
S1212     state must provide equal educational facilities for blacks
S1212     within its boundaries.  Lloyd Gaines, the plaintiff in the
S1212     case, disappeared after the decision and was never located.
S12071941 Dorie Miller of Waco, Texas, messman on USS Arizona, manned
S1207     machine gun during Pearl Harbor attacks and downed four
S1207     planes.  He was awarded the Navy Cross.  Lester Granger
S1207     named executive director of the National Urban League.
S1207     Spingarn Medal presented to novelist Richard Wright, "one
S1207     of the most powerful of contemporary writer," for "his pow
S1207     erful depiction in his books, 'Uncle Tom's Children,' and
S1207     'Native Son,' of the effect of proscription, segregation
S1207     and denial of opportunites to the American Negro."
S12151943 Death of Thomas W. ("Fats") Waller (39), in Kansas City,
S1215     Missouri.  San Francisco Sun-Reporter established.  Spingarn
S1215     Medal presented to William H. Hastie "for his distinguished
S1215     career as a jurist and as an uncompromising champiom of eq
S1215     ual justice."
S12051946 president Truman created Committee on Civil Rights by Exe
S1205     cutive Order No. 9808.  Two blacks Attorney Sadie M. Alex
S1205     ander and Channing H. Tobias were members of the committee.
S1205     Spingarn Medal presented to Thurgood Marshall, director of
S1205     the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, "for his dis
S1205     tinguished service as a lawyer before the Supreme Court."
S12031951 President Truman named committee to monitor compliance with
S1203     antidiscrimination provisions in U.S. government contracts
S1203     and sub-contracts.
S12251951 Harry T. Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed and his wife
S1225     seriously injured by bomb blast which wrecked their home in
S1225     Mins, Florida.  Spingarn Medal presented to Mabel K. Stau
S1225     pers for her leadership in the field of nursing.
S12021953 Dr. Rufus Clement, president of Atlanta University elected
S1202     to Atlanta Board of Education.
S12311953 Hulan Jack sworn in a Manhattan Borough president.  Spingarn
S1231     Medal presented to Paul R. Williams for his achievements as
S1231     an architect.
S12011955 Rosa Parks, a seamstress and activist, arrested after she
S1201     refused to give her seat to a white man on a Montgomery
S1201     (Ala.) bus.
S12051955 Historic bus boycott began in Montgomery.  At a mass meeting
S1205     at the Holt Street Baptist Church Martin Luther King Jr. was
S1205     elected president of the boycott organization.  Asa Philip
S1205     Randolph and Willard S. Townsend elected vice-president of
S1205     the AFL-CIO.  Carl Murphy, publisher of the Baltimore Afro-
S1205     American, awarded Spingarn Medal for his contributions as a
S1205     publisher and civil rights leader.
S12251956 Home of Rev. F.L. Shuttlesworth, Birmingham protest leader,
S1225     destroyed by dynamite bomb.
S12261956 Birmingham blacks began mass definace of Jim Crow bus laws.
S12271956 Federal Judge Dozier Devane granted temporary injunction re
S1227     straining city officials from interfering with integration
S1227     of Tallahassee, Fla., city buses  and said "every segrega
S1227     tion act of every state or city is as dead as a doornail."
S1227     Spingarn Medal awarded Jack Roosevelt ("Jackie") Robinson,
S1227     first black in the major leagues, for his conduct on and
S1227     off the baseball field.
S12051957 New York became the first city to legislate against racial
S1205     or religious discrimination in housing market with adoption
S1205     of Fair Housing Practices Law.  Martin Luther King Jr. awar
S1205     ded Spingarn Medal for his leadership of the Montgomery Bus
S1205     Boycott.
S12211959 Citizens of Deerfield, Ill., authorized a plan which blocked
S1221     building of interracial housing development. Spingarn Medal
S1221     was presented to Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, compo
S1221     ser, pianist and jazz pioneer, for his contributions to the
S1221     arts.  Motown Records established by Berry Gordy Jr.
S12301960 Two U.S. courts issued temporary injunctions to prevent
S1230     eviction of about seven hundred black sharecroppers in Hay
S1230     wood and Fayetter counties, Tennessee.  Poet Langston Hughes
S1230     presented Spingarn Medal and cited as "the poet laureate of
S1230     the Negro race."
S12091961 Tanzania proclaimed independent.
S12111961 U.S. Supreme Court reversed conviction of sixteen sit-in stu
S1211     dents who had been arrested in Baton Rouge.
S12121961 More than seven hundred demonstrators, including Martin Lut
S1212     her King Jr., arrested in Albany, Ga., in five mass marches
S1212     on city hall to protest segregation.  Arrests triggered mil
S1212     itant Albany movement.
S12151961 Police used tear gas and leashed dogs to stop mass demonstr
S1215     ation by fifteen hundred blacks in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
S1215     Kenneth B. Clark, psychologist and educator, awarded Sping
S1215     arn Medal for pioneering studies that influenced the Supreme
S1215     Court decision on school desegregation.
S12121963 Kenya proclaimed independent.  Medgar Wiley Evers awarded
S1212     Spingarn Medal posthumously for his civil rights leadership.
S12031964 J. Raymond Jones elected leader of New York Democratic orga
S1203     nization (Tammany Hall). Nobel Peace Prize awarded (December
S1203     10) to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at cermonies in Oslo, Nor
S1203     way.  He was the third black and the youngest person to re
S1203     ceive the award.  Academy Award for best actor of the year
S1203     presented (April 13) to Sidney Poitier for his performance
S1203     in Lilies of the Field.  Spingarn Medal presented to NAACP
S1203     executive secretary Roy Wilkins for his contribution to
S1203     "the advancement of the American people and the national
S1203     purpose."  Independence Bank of Chicago organized.
S12251965 Congress of Racial Equality announced that its national di
S1225     rector, James Farmer, would resign on March 1.  Seaway Na
S1225     tional Bank of Chicago established.
S12141968 Classes of San Francisco State suspended after demonstra
S1214     tions by black Student Union and Third World Liberation
S1214     Front.  Sammy Davis Jr. awarded Spingarn Medal for his "su
S1214     perb and many-faceted talent,"  and his contributions to
S1214     the civil rights movement.
S12041969 Two Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark - kil
S1204     led in Chicago police raid.  Civil rights leaders said the
S1204     two men were murdered in their beds.  Pulitzer Prize for
S1204     photography awarded to Moneta Sleet Jr. of Ebony magazine.
S1204     He was the first black male cited by the Pulitzer committee.
S1204     Clarence Mitchell Jr., director of the Washington Bureau of
S1204     the NAACP, awarded the Spingarn Medal "for the pivotal role
S1204     he....played in enactment of civil rights legislation."
S12061971 Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice de
S1206     spite opposition of civil rights organizations.
S12091971 Death of Ralph J. Bunche (67), Nobel Peace Prize winner and
S1209     undersecretary  of the UN from 1955 to his retirement in Oc
S1209     tober, 1971, in New York City.
S12101971 William H. Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice de
S1210     spite opposition of civil rights organizations.
S12181971 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) founded at Chicago
S1218     meeting by Rev Jesse Jackson.  Spingarn Medal presented to
S1218     Rev.  Leon H. Sullivan, founder of Opportunites Industriali
S1218     zation Centers of America (OIC) for his leadership.
S12071972 W. Streling Cary elected president of the Nation Council of
S1207     Churches.
S12081972 Death of Rep. George Collins (47), in airplane crash, near
S1208     Midway Airport, Chicago.  Atty. Jewel Lafontant named deputy
S1208     solicitor general.
S12211972 Death of Horace Mann Bond (70), former president of Lincoln
S1221     University (Pa.), in Atlanta.  Spingarn Medal awarded t Gor
S1221     don B. Parks "in recognition of his unique creativity, as
S1221     exemplified by his outstanding achievements as photographer,
S1221     writer, film-maker and composer."
S12171975 Death of Noble Sissle (86), pioneer jazz figure.  Spingarn
S1217     Medal presented to Henry ("Hank") Aaron "for his memorable
S1217     home-run record which stands as a landmark" and for his
S1217     sportsmanship.
S12161976 Rep. Andrew Young of Georgia named ambassador and chief del
S1216     egate to the United Nations.
S12211976 Patricia R. Harris named secretary of housing and urban de
S1221     velopment by President-elect Carter.  Spingarn Medal present
S1221     ed to Alvin Ailey "in recogniton of his international pre-
S1221     eminence in the field of dance."