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Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.:
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. The First African American Appointed Lieutenant General Of The United States Air Force, Was Born December 18, 1812.
Davis Was Also The First Black To Command An Air Force Base During World War I. He Commanded The First All-Black Fighter Pilot Unit, The Ninety-Ninth Pursuit Squardron, Comprised Of Tuskegee-Trained Flyers.
Davis' Father, Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., Had Been The First Black General In The Regular Army. On October 16, 1940, Davis, Sr. Was Made Brigader General. He Also Received The Bronze Star And Distinguished Service
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Noble Sissle:
Musician, Playwright, Lyricist, Singer And Bnadleader, Noble Sissle, Died December 17, 1975, In Tampa, Florida.
Sissle
Began His Professional Career In Vaudeville, Singing With A Midwest
Gospel Quartet. By 1915 He Had Formed His Own Orchestra.
Sissle
Is Most Noted For His Collaboration With Songwriter, Eubie Blake. The
Two Joined Forces Shortly After World War I And Performed In Vaudeville
Shows As The "Dixie Duo."
They
Would Later Cowrtie And Produce Shuffle Along, The First Broadway
Musical Written, Produced And Performed By African Americans.
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John Mercer Langston:
The Man Credited With Being America's First Black Elected Official, John Mercer Langston, Was Born December 14, 1829, In Louisa County, Virginia.
The
Son Of A Virginia Planter And Slave Mother, Langston Was Freed At Age
Five. After Graduating Oberlin College In Ohio In 1849, He Became One
Of Ohio's Prominent Black Leaders. He Was Elected To Local Offices In
Brownhelm Township, Ohio (1855) And Oberlin (1865-67).
After The Civil War, Langston Moved To Washington, DC And Practiced Law. He Also Served Simultaneously, As Dean Of The Law School (1869-77) And
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African American WAVES:
On This Day In 1944 African American Women Were Sworn In, For The First Time, To The Women Accepted For Volunteer Emergency Services (WAVES), A Women's Naval Reserve.
The
WAVES Were The First Women's Branch Of The U.S. Armed Forces To Achieve
Full Intergration Of Companies And Duties. However, By 1945, There Were
Not Yet 50 Black WAVES.
The Majority Of The Black Females Who Served During World War II Enlisted In The Women's Army Corps (WACs).
Of The Estimated 350,000 Women In The Armed Forces During World War II,
About 4,000 Were Black. By The
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Dr. George E. Grant, Charles Sifford, Lee Elder & Calvin Pete:
December 12th Is A Historic Date For African Americans In The Sport Of Golf.
December
12, 1899: Dr. George E. Grant, A Harvard-Educated Black Dentist,
Patented The Wooden Golf Tee. Prior To Grant's Invention, Mounds Of
Dirt Were Used By Golfers To Elevate The Ball.
December 12,
1969: Black Golfer, Charles Sifford Of North Carolina, Won The Los
Angeles Open, Helping To Break Professional Golf's Color Line.
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December 12, 1974: Lee Elder Won The Los Angeles Open. Elder Played For
30 Years On The PGA And
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