Alt_Bartender

One more week of crazy overtime and I’m free for four days!

Hey everyone. I’ve been on a mental health break. I just got so overwhelmed by what’s happening in this country that I needed to step away. That, and the horrors I was researching for the Black History Month series I was doing, took such a huge toll on me.

Dec. 28:

In 10 years, the ACS took nearly 3,000 Black people to Afri­ca. They helped to form what are today the West African nations of Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Dec. 28:

Together, they cried.  “I lived to see this,” she told him. Tommy slowed his telling as he remembered his mother. “I *lived* to see this.”

Dec. 28:

Her baby, Rose Timmons, was born on January 16, 1957, less than a month after she and her mother survived the attempt to kill them.

Dec. 28:

Jordan was transported to Oak Street General Hospital, but doctors were hesitant to remove a bullet lodged in her leg for fear that it could spark premature labor. Instead, Jordan was told she would have to remain in the hospital for the duration of her pregnancy.

Dec. 28:

1956 - A sniper shot Rosa Jordan, a 22-year-old pregnant woman, as she sat on a Montgomery bus just three days after Christmas. She was eight months pregnant and headed to her job across town.

Dec. 28:

The third day of Kwanzaa is devoted to Ujima – the principle of collective work and responsibility.

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Dec. 27:

It set a precedent for the state as, city by city, public transportation was desegregated in Florida.

Dec. 27:

1956 - Federal Judge Dozier Devane granted a temporary injunction restraining city officials from interfering with integration of Tallahassee, Fla., city buses and said "every segregation act of every state or city is as dead as a doornail."

Dec. 27:

1941 - Dr. Charles Richard Drew, the pioneer of blood plasma research, established a blood bank in New York City. Drew went to New York to direct the U.S. Blood for Britain project. He created a central location for the blood collection process of donors who wanted to give blood to British soldiers.

Dec. 27:

1892 - Livingstone and Biddle College (now Johnson C. Smith) play the first Black intercollegiate football game in Salisbury, N.C.

Dec. 27:

On the second day of Kwanzaa, the defining principle is Kujichagulia or self-determination. Kujichagulia is the “right and responsibility to exist as a people and make their own unique contribution to the forward flow of human history.”

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