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Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
May 2 1870 – One of the most unsung religious leaders in American history, William Seymour, was born on this day in Centerville, Louisiana. Seymour became pastor of the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles and the catalyst for the worldwide Pentecostal movement. He not only rejected racial barriers in the church in favor of “Unity in Christ” but he is also credited with eliminating many of the restrictions placed on women in the church. He died of a heart attack in 1922. May 3 1845 – Macon B. Allen passes the Massachusetts bar thus becoming the first African American lawyer to pass a state bar and the first Black person permitted to practice law in the United States. Allen was born in Indiana but after the Civil War he moved to South Carolina where he was elected a judge in 1873. May 4 1891 – Dr. Daniel Hale Williams founds the Provident Hospital and Training Center in Chicago, Illinois. It becomes a major training center for Black doctors and nurses. Wil-
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liams is best known, however, for performing the nation’s first open heart surgery on July 9, 1893. He operated on a man injured in a knife fight. The man would live for another 20 years after the surgery.
May 5 1905 – Robert Sengstacke Abbot (1870-1940) founds the Chicago Defender newspaper calling it “the world’s greatest weekly.” Indeed, he would build the Defender into the largest circulation and most influential Black newspaper of its day. May 6 1812- Martin R. Delany, a pioneering Black nationalist, is born on this day in Charles Town, Virginia. Abraham Lincoln once described him as one of the most brilliant men he had ever met. Delany would fight in the Civil War to end slavery and become one of the nation’s first Black military officers. After the war he became a doctor. But over the years he became frustrated with American racism and began to advocate a return of Blacks to Africa. May 6 1787 - African Lodge No. 459 organized in Boston with Prince Hall as Master. 1886 - M.A. Cherry patented the tricycle. 1960 - President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of
1960. 1967 - Four hundred students seized administration building at Cheyney State College. May 7 1800 - On this date in 1800, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, frontier trader, fur trapper, farmer, businessman and “father” of Chicago sold all his property for $1,200 and left the area. He died 18 years later, almost penniless, and was buried in St. Charles, Missouri. 1867 - Black demonstrators staged ride-in to protest segregation on New Orleans streetcars. Similar demonstrations occurred in Mobile, Ala., and other cities. 1878 - J. R. Winters receives a patent for the fire escape ladder. 1885 - Dr. John E. W. Thompson, graduate of the Yale University Medical School, named minister to Haiti. 1976 - William H. Hastie inaugurated as the first Black governor of the Virgin Islands. May 8 1858 - John Brown held antislavery convention, which was attended by twelve whites and thirty-four Blacks, at Chatham, Canada. The Escape was the first play by an African American published by William Wells Brown. 1925 - The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the trailblazing black labor union, was organized by A. Philip Randolph. 1945 - Germany surrendered on V-E Day. 1958 - President Eisenhower ordered federalized National Guard removed from Central High School, Little Rock.
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