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June 2 -- my bad y'all I was caught up and forgot
Black Facts for June 2
1834
Fifth national Black convention met in New York with fifty delegates from eight states.
1854
Fugitive slave Anthony Burns was returned to the South from Boston. It cost the federal government $100,000 to return Burns, who was later sold to a group of Bostonians who freed him.
1868
John Hope was born on this day.
1875
James Augustine Healy, the first African American Roman Catholic Bishop, born in Macon, Georgia.
1899
Black Americans observed day of fasting called by National Afro-American Council to protest lynching and racial massacres.
1943
Ninety-ninth Pursuit Squadron flew first combat mission, strafing enemy positions on the heavily fortified Italian Island of Pantelleria.
1967
Race riot, Roxbury section of Boston.
1975
James A Healy, first Black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated in cathedral at Portland, Maine.
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I am a woman, I make mistakes. I make them often. God has given me a talent and that's it. ~ Jill Scott
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