The Brown Foundation of Northern and Central Virginia presents Today August 6 in Afro-American History: Absalom Jones became an Ordained Deacon within the Protestant Episcopal Church on this date in 1795. Congress passed the Confiscation Act on this date in 1861. This Act allowed property of rebel slaveholders, including slaves, to be appropriated. John Merrick, co-organizer of North Carolina Mutual and Provident Life Insurance Company, died in Durham, NC, on this date in 1919. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on this date in 1965. This Bill suspended literacy tests and allocated federal examiners to the South. It was on this day in 1965 that the Four Tops and the Temptations performed on the ABC Musical Show Shindig that aired from 1964-1966. Gordon Alexander Buchanan Parks The Learning Tree, the first contemporary film directed by a Black person, opened on this date in 1969. It was on this day in 1969 that WGNO TV 26 out of New Orleans, Louisiana changed its call letters WWOM (Wonderful World Of Movies) and became the first tv station in the state of Louisiana to broadcast movies (mainly Afro-American Movie oldies and the Silent shorts of the Little Rascals) 24 hrs a day.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:00:02 +0000
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