Selected Black Facts for February 11 “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ― Nelson Mandela 1644 - First Black legal protest in America pressed by First Black legal protest in America pressed by eleven Blacks who petitioned for freedom in New Netherlands (New York). Council of New Netherlands freed the eleven petitioners because they had served the Company seventeen or eighteen years and had been long since promised their freedom on the same footing as other free people in New Netherlands. 1783 - Jarena Lee was born The daughter of former slaves, born in Cape May, New Jersey. Jarena Lee is the considered the first female preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1836, she published her autobiography, THe Life and Religious Experiences, of Jarena Lee, a Coloured Lady, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel. 1898 - Owen L. W. Smith - minister to Liberia Owen L. W. Smith of North Carolina, AME Zion minister and educator, named minister to Liberia. 1961 - February 11, Robert Weaver sworn in as February 11, Robert Weaver sworn in as administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, highest federal post to date by a Black American. 1971 - Whitney Young Jr., National Urban League director, Whitney M. Young, Jr. was Executive Director of the National Urban League from 1961 until his tragic, untimely death in 1971. He worked tireless to bring the races together, and joined the tenets of social work, of which he was an outstanding practitioner, to the social activism that brought the Urban League into the forefront of the civil rights movement 1976 - Clifford Alexander, Jr. is confirmed as the first African American Secretary of the Army. He will hold the position until the end of President Jimmy Carters term. 1989 - Penns 1996 Baccalaureate Speaker is The Right Reverend Barbara Clementine Harri Penns 1996 Baccalaureate Speaker is The Right Reverend Barbara Clementine Harris, a Philadelphian who was the first woman ever to become a bishop in the Anglican Communion. Bishop Harris entered the priesthood after a long and successful career in public and community relations in Philadelphia between 1949 and 1977. 1990 - Nelson Mandela is released Nelson Mandelas greatest pleasure, his most private moment, is watching the sun set with the music of Handel or Tchaikovsky playing. Locked up in his cell during daylight hours, deprived of music, both these simple pleasures were denied him for decades. With his fellow prisoners, concerts were organised when possible
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