On this day, April 3rd:

-1968 (45 years ago): Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his final address at Bishop Charles J. Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on this day.

-1962 (51 years ago):  In retaliation against a Black Boycott of downtown stores, the city of Birmingham, AL Commission voted not to pay the city's $45,000 share of a $100,000 county program which supplied surplus food to the needy. More than 90 percent of the recipients of aid were Black. When the NAACP protested the Comission decision's, Birmingham Mayor Arthur J. Hanes dismissed their complaint as a "typical reaction from New York Socialist radiccals."

-1950 (63 years ago): The "father of Black history" Carter Godwin Woodson, died in Washington, DC on this day; Woodson was 74.

-1944 (69 years ago):  The US Supreme Court in an 8-1 ruling, declared that Blacks could not be barred form voting in the Texas Democratic primaries. The high court repudiated the contention that political parties are private associations and held that discrimination aginst Blacks violated the 15th Amendment.

-1930 (83 years ago): Ras Tafari was proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie of the Federal Democratic Republic  Of Ethiopia.

-1889 (124 years ago): Savings Bank of the Order of True Reformers opened in Richmond, VA.

-1888 (125 years ago):Two events happened in this year; first, Gertrude Bridget "Ma" Rainey was born. Known as the "Mother of the Blues," "Ma" Rainey was born in Columbus, GA. She made her stage debut at the Columbus Opera House in 1900 in a talent show called "The Bunch of Blackberries". She made her first recording in 1923 and her last on Dec 28, 1928. She died Dec 22, 1939, in Columbus, GA. Second, A. B. Blackburn invented the spring seat for chairs on this day.

Thanks again family for taking time to journey with us in Black History; looking forward to travel again with you real soon!

Until we meet again, remember to go to www.blackfacts.com for more information on Black History, all year long. Stay Blessed!!