November 2008
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Scripture of the Month: Matthew 9:2
Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, your sins are forgiven. I say to you rise, pick up your mat and go home. They were all astonished and glorified God, saying, We have never see anything like this. |
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1
 All SaintsGrambling SU founded, Grambling, LA 1929
1945 John H Johnson publishes the first issue of Ebony
1999 Chicago Bears Hall of Fame running back Walter Payton succumbs to
liver disease at 45
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2
All Souls1983 President Ronald Reagan signs a law designating the third
Monday in January as Martin Luther King Jr. Day
1996 Toni Stone, the first female to break the gender barrier in the
Negro Leagues dies
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St. Martin de PorresSt. Malachy
1983 Jessie Jackson announces his candidacy for the office of president
of the United States |
4
St. Charles Borromeo
Presidential Election
(US)
1983 Harold Ford is elected US congressman for
Tennessee
1992 Carol Moseley Braun is the first African American woman to be
elected to the US Senate |
5
Negro History Week initiated by Carter C. Woodson 19261862 Frazier A.
Boutelle is commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Fifth New York
Cavalry |
6
Edith Sampson, first Black Chicago Municipal Judge 19621983 Sgt Farley
Simon, a native of Grenada is the first Marine to win the Marine Corps
Marathon |
7
Knights of Peter Claver founded Mobile, AL 19091989 Douglas Wilder
becomes the nation's first black governor (Virginia) since reconstruction |
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U. S. Bishops endorse NBCC Pastoral Plan 19891938 Crystal Bird Fauset of
Pennsylvania is the first African American woman to be elected to a state
legislature |
9
 Black Catholic Community Diocese of Grand Rapids, MI
Theme: Then & Now
Black Catholic History Prayer Service and Social
Benjamin Banneker, inventor of the first clock and surveyor for Washington
DC born Ellicott City, MD 1731
1997 NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner
and Violet Palmer as the first women to officiate in an all-male major
sports league
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St. Leo the GreatGranville T. Wood patented Electric Railway 1891
1917 musician and writer Nora Holt joins the Chicago Defender as the
writer of the feature article "Cultivating Symphony Concerts" |
11
St. Martin of Tours
Veteran's Day (US)
1989 the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery AL is dedicated
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12
Egbert A. Williams, performer died 1917St. Joseph's Seminary (Josephites)
relocated to Washington, DC 1930
1922 Sigma Gamma Rho sorority is organized by Mary Lou Allison and six
other teachers at Butler University
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St. Frances Cabrini
Fifth Annual Catholic
Liturgy Music Workshop
with Pastoral Musician of the Year Rawn Harbor
1940 US Supreme Court rules in Hansberry vs. Lee that
African Americans cannot be barred from white neighborhoods
1998 Kenny Kirkland jazz pianist with Banford Marsalis band dies at home
in Queens NY |
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St. Callistus IBooker T. Washington died 1915
1954 Dr James Joshua Thomas is installed as minister of the Mott Haven
Reformed Church in the Bronx NY |
15
St. Albert the Great
St. Augustine High
School 3rd Annual Pro-Life Conference "Building A Culture of Life" Bill Russell, first Black Coach of professional sport
team, Boston Celtics 1966 |
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St. Margaret of Scotland
St. Gertrude
Black Catholic Celebration, St. Charles Lwanga Center 1873 W.C. handy, father of the blues is born in Florence AL
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St. Elizabeth of HungaryHenriette Delille, foundress Holy Family Sisters
died 1862
1980 WHMM-TV in Washington DC becomes the first African American
public-broadcasting television station
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Dedication of the Churches of Sts. Peter and PaulSojourner Truth born
1787 in NY
1900 Dr. Howard Thurman, theologian and first African American to hold
full-time position at Boston University is born |
19
Roy Campanella named MVP in National Baseball League 19531997 Drs. Paula
Mahone and Karen Drake head of forty specialists in first successful
delivery of septuplets born in Carlisle IA |
20
William Strayhorn, jazz composer born 19151695 Zumbi dos Palmares,
Brazilian leader of 100-year old rebel slave group is killed in an ambush |
21
Presentation of MaryHoly Family Sisters founded 1842
Congregation of the Sisters, Home Visitors of Mary founded 1949
1893 Granville T. Woods inventor, patents the "Electric Railway Conduit"
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St. Cecilia1994 jazz musician Herbie Hancock, Clark Terry and Joshua
Redman perform in a concert beamed by satellite to sixty schools nationwide |
23
Christ the King
St. Clement I
J.L. Love patented pencil sharpeners 1897
1941 musician and actor Henrietta Vinton Davis dies in Washington DC
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Scott Joplin originator of ragtime music born 1868 in Texarkana TX |
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Bill "Bojangles" Robinson died 19491955 the Interstate Commerce
Commission bans segregation in interstate travel
1866 Rust College is founded in Holly Springs MS |
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Alice Dunbar-Nelson, poet, historian, and newspaper publisher died 1927
Marcus Garvey, Pan-Africanist is released from Tombs Atlanta penitentiary
1927
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Thanksgiving (US)Ethel Ennis, singer born Baltimore
Charles Johnson wins National Book Award for "Middle Passage" 1990
1942 Rock musician Jimi Hendrix is born in Seattle
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Richard Wright, novelist died in Paris 19601961 Ernie Davis is the first
African American to win the Heisman Trophy |
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100 years Josephite Evangelization in LA.Lebeau 1997
1908 Adam Clayton Powell Jr., politician and civil rights activist is
born in New Haven CT |
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St. Andrew the ApostleJudith Jamison debut, Alvin Ailey's American Dance
Theatre, Chicago 1965
1912 Gordon Parks, filmmaker and photographer is born
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