November 12th in Black History

November 12th in Black History

1775. General George Washington issues an order forbidding the recruitment of Black soldiers.

1779. Three years after the United States’ Declaration of Independence avows that “All men are created equal”, 19 Black men petition for the abolition of slavery in New Hampshire. The State finds them less equal than others and no action is taken.


1882. Lane College is founded in Jackson, Tennessee.


1896. Buffalo Soldier, 1st Sgt. Moses Williams (Ninth Calvary) was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in the Battle of Cuchillo Negro Mountains, in New Mexico, fought on August 16, 1881.
Page from the 9th Cavalry website


1912. Birth of Civil Rights hero Daisy Bates, pictured above. Best known as leader and mentor of the “Little Rock Nine”; and the champion of the drive to end school segregation in Arkansas, Bates lived her entire life as a freedom fighter.
NPR story on Bates


1941. Opera singer, Madame Lillian Evanti and instructor Mary Cardwell Dawson founded the National Negro Opera Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


1974. South Africa is suspended from the U.N. General Assembly for its racist apartheid policies.


1977. Ernest Nathan Morial was elected the first black mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana.


1994. World Champion athlete Wilma Glodean Rudolph died at the age of 54 in her home in Nashville, Tennessee.

“Don’t blink, or you’ll miss her. And that would be a shame!”

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