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Back 'n da Dayz

Back 'n da Dayz. December 1. Rosa Parks, a Montgomery , Ala-bama, seamstress, was arrested by Montgom-ery police for refusing to move to the back of the bus and give her seat to a white.

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Back 'n da Dayz

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  1. Back 'n da Dayz December 1

  2. Rosa Parks, a Montgomery , Ala-bama, seamstress, was arrested by Montgom-ery police for refusing to move to the back of the bus and give her seat to a white

  3. passenger. This incident lead to the successful boycott of the Montgomery city bus system by African Africans in 1955.

  4. Back 'n da Dayz December 2

  5. In 1970, the US Senate voted 70 to 12 to approve a federal grant that would give the Taos Pueblo people title to 48,000 acres of land in New Mexico.

  6. Back 'n da Dayz December 3

  7. In 1639, the Bronx portion of New York was purchased from Native Americans. The purchase was made by German

  8. immigrant Jonas Bronck, a farmer, for whom the region is currently named.

  9. Back 'n da Dayz December 4

  10. The Amsterdam News, the largest African American-owned newspaper in New York City and the largest weekly community newspaper in the United States,

  11. was started in 1909 in the New York City home of James H. Anderson.

  12. Back 'n da Dayz December 5

  13. In 1992, Mae Jemison was the first female astronaut of African American descent to go into space. Her first mission was a cooperative effort

  14. between the US and Japan which focused on experiments in space to gain more knowledge about the life sciences.

  15. Back 'n da Dayz December 6

  16. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1865, ending the institution of slavery in the United States by law.

  17. The true end of slavery came on April 19, 1865, when the Confederate troops of the South surren-dered to the Union troops of the North.

  18. Back 'n da Dayz December 7

  19. The Reverend W. Sterling Cary, a New York minister, became the first African American to be elected president of the National Council of Churches.

  20. The true end of slavery came on April 19, 1865, when the Confederate troops of the South surren-dered to the Union troops of the North.

  21. Back 'n da Dayz December 8

  22. John Lennon, former lead guitarist of The Beatles, was shot to death in New York City outside his apartment building, the Dakota, in 1980.

  23. The true end of slavery came on April 19, 1865, when the Confederate troops of the South surren-dered to the Union troops of the North.

  24. Back 'n da Dayz December 10

  25. Sinclair Lewis was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the first US author to win the prize in that category. His body of work exposed the

  26. weaknesses he saw in US social life, expressed in such books as Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), and Elmer Gantry (1927).

  27. Back 'n da Dayz December 11

  28. Diane Feinstein , a former city superviso, became the first woman to serve as mayor of San Francisco in 1979. In 1992,

  29. she was one of two women from the state of California elected to the US Senate.

  30. Back 'n da Dayz December 12

  31. A lower court ruling requiring Native American students in Oklahoma to cut their hair to meet school regulations was upheld by the US Supreme Court during this week in 1973.

  32. Back 'n da Dayz December 13

  33. During this month in 1983, Katherine Durn-ham, African American dancer, choreographer and anthropologist, received a Kennedy Center Honor—the highest award an artist in the US can receive.

  34. Back 'n da Dayz December 18

  35. During this week in 1991, Mexican American actor Martin Sheen (Ramon Estevez) opened in a revival of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible at the Belasco Theater in New York.

  36. Back 'n da Dayz December 19

  37. One of the earliest efforts by General DeWill of the US to have Japanese aliens placed in internment camps while the US was involved in World War II was initiated on this day in 1941. In this early

  38. communication, DeWitt urged the internment of aliens of all countries with whom the US was at war, including Japan, Germany, and Italy.

  39. Back 'n da Dayz December 22

  40. Lucy Ann Staton-Sessions of Cleveland, Ohio, became the first African American woman college graduate in the US during this month in

  41. 1850. Ms. Stanton-Sessions received a Bachelor of Literature degree from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio.

  42. In 1946 Wing F. Ong became the first Chinese American elected to a state legislature. Ong was elected to the Arizona State Legislature.

  43. Back 'n da Dayz November 8

  44. Attorney General of the state of Massachusetts Edward Brooke became the first African American to be elected to the US Senate by popular vote in 1966.

  45. Senator Brooke was a member of the Republican party.

  46. Back 'n da Dayz November 9

  47. The Vietnam Memorial was opened on this day in 1982 in Washington, DC. The memorial was designed by Maya Ying Lin, a Vietnamese American architecture

  48. Back 'n da Dayz November 10

  49. In 1917, 41 women from 15 states were arrested outside the White House in Washington, DC for suffragette demon-strations. The women did nothing more than picket the White House with

  50. signs demanding voting rights. The arrested women drew sentences that ranged from six days to six months imprisonment.

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