Today in Black History
496. Death of Pope Saint Gelasius I, the third and last pope of African origin.
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1832. Garifuna Settlement Day celebrates the date the Garifunas or Black Caribs from St. Vincent, settled in Belize after almost 200 years of war with the Spanish, French, and British.
THE GARIFUNA STORY
1923. Governor John C. Walton of Oklahoma was impeached as a result of his public criticism of and opposition to the Ku Klux Klan.
1955. Carmen de Lavallade(pictured above)begins a contract for three seasons as a prima ballerina with the Metropolitan Opera.
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1968. Modibo Keita, president of Mali, was deposed by the army in a coup d'état.
1973. Actor, Dancer, Choreographer, Savion Glover was born in Newark, New Jersey
1985. Lincoln Theodore Andrew Perry, the first major Black movie star, who famously portrayed the character Stepin Fetchit, died in Woodland Hills, CA at the age of 83.
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