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9fl - THE CARP' IMA TIMES SAT FEBRUARY 21. 1976 Hitfitfic 1876 Senate, after three years of. debate and controversy, declined to seat P.B.S. Pinchback by a vote of 32 to 29, March 8. Race conflict, Hamburg, S. C. July 8, Five Negroes killed. President issued proclamation commanding "Rifle dubs" of South Carolina to disband, October 17. President Grant sent federal troops to South Carolina, October 26. Federal troops sent to Tallahassee, Fla. November 9. Edward A. Boucher received Ph.D. degree in physics at Yale University, the first Negro awarded Ph.D. by an American university. 1877 At conference in Wormley Hotel in Washington, representatives of Rutherford B. Hayes and representatives of the South confirmed an agreement which paved way for election of Hayes as President and withdrawal of federal troops from the South, February 26. President Hayes appointed Frederick Douglass, Marshal of District of Columbia, March 18. Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia, S. C. April 10. Democrats took over state government. Federal troops withdrawn from New Orleans, La. April 20. Democrats took over state government. Henry O. Flopper graduated from West Point, the first Negro graduate, June 15. 1879 Death of William Lloyd Garrison, New York City, May 24. Southern Negroes fled political and economic exploitation in "exodus of 1879' 1880 U. S. population 50,115,783. Negro population 6,580,793 (13.1) 1881 Frederick Douglass appointed Recorder of Deeds for District of Columbia, May 17. Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed Register of Treasury by President Garfield, May 19. Booker T. Washington opened Tuskeegee Institute, July 4. Tennessee kick off modern segregation movement with Jim Crow railroad car law. Florida followed in 1887; Mississippi 1888, Texas 1889; Louisiana, 1890, Alabama, Kentucky, Arkansas, Georgia, 1891; South Carolina, 1898; North Carolina, 1899; Virginia, 1900, Maryland, 1 904, Oklahoma, 1 907. (1 BY ELVA P. DEJARMON (Brief anecdotes of Negro History from BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER, by Lerone Bennett, Jr.? and THE NEGRO IN VIRGINIA, Writers Program of WPA in Virginia, Hampton Institute Sponsored). 1883 Death of Sojourner Truth, Battle Creek, Mich. November 16. Supreme Court declared Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional, October 15. 1884 Race Riot, Danville, Va. May 19. John Roy Lynch, former congressman, elected temporary chairman of Republican convention, became first Black to preside over deliberations of national political party, June 3. Death of Robert Brown Elliott, Reconstruction politician, New Orleans, August 9. "Scramble for Africa,' organized at international conference in Berlin, November 15-February 26. Carrolton Massacre, Twenty Negroes killed. 1886 Carrollton, 1889 Miss. March 17. Asa Philip Randolph born, Crescent City, Florida, April 15. This outstanding man, still living and writing, organized the union of Pullman Car porters. 1890 IICCU Rctalb ttcro Tbn 50 Yeas In Tho Arts "NCCU Artists: The Past 50 Years" will be the theme of the first show in North Carolina Central University's Museum of Art under the direction of Norman Pendergraft. The show opens Sunday at 2:30 p.m. and continues through February 29. Featured will be works by Dr. William A. Cooper, who graduated from NCCU in 1914 while the school was still the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua, by Ed Wilson, who was for 12 years chairman of the NCCU Art Department, and by Ernie Barnes, whose paintings are featured on the television comedy, "Good Times. Barnes was a student of Wilson. Other NCCU artists -alumni and faculty members -will also be featured in the show. The show is an observance of Black History Month. It celebrates not only the work of NCCU artist of the past 50 years (Cooper's work was primarily done during the last half century) but the university's brief but important . ....,... . contribution to the 200-year U. S. population 62,947,714. Negro population history of United 7,488,676 (11.9). Mississippi constitutional states. convention began systematic exclusion of Negroes from Museum hours will be 2 to 4 oolitical life of South. August 12-November 1. The p-m. Sunday, 3 to 6 pja Mississippi Plan (literacy and understanding tests) was later adopted with additions by otheV states: South Carolina 1895; Louisiana, 1898, North Carolina, 1900; Alabama, 1901; Virginia 1901, Georgia, 1908; Olahoma 1910. 1891 Lodge Bill, which provided federal supervisors of elections buried in Senate, January 22. Chicago's Provident Hospital incorporated with first training school for Negro nurses, January 23. 1893 Walter Francis White born, Atlanta, Ga. Jury 1 (NAACP long time president and associate. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed "world's first successful heart operation ' at Chicago's Provident Hospital, July 9, Tuesday, 12:30 to 3:30 Wednesday and Thursday. The museum will: hfilfpAosed Mondays, Friday.sMyand Saturdays. Group Rowings may be arranged by calling 683-6391 between 9 and 11 ajiv Monday through' Friday. Scabies Roaches Epidemic Proportions In Schools RALEIGH - Scabies ( a Latin word meaning scratch) has reached epidemic proportions in North Carolina public schools, according to Dr. Peter D. Rogers, field epidemiologist with the Division of Health Services. 'It's the plain of itch people last had to contend with on a large scale bacK in the early i940 s" Rogers said. ' There has been a stream of letters and calls to my office from school and local health officials recently, wanting to know how to treat it. It's the same throughout the countr Rogers said scabies is spread person to person and from objects to person. He aid the disease is cuascd by an itch mite which is parasitic to man. It burrows into the outer layer skin while feeding on tissue. Scabies, often called a ' disease of families' because of its tendency to spread to all members of a family once there is an infestation, shows up about four weeks after infection, Rogers pointed out He said the most common sites of infection in older children and adults are between the finger. Dacks of the hands, elbows, under the arms, groin, breasts of women and buttocks. In infants, the face is a common site of infection. Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. Herbert Hoover SENIOR CITIZEN'S CORNER HELPFUL IDEAS FOR SUCCESSFUL RETIREMENT Home Insurance Many retirees, otherwise The public health official said the treatment of choice for scabies is one percent gamma benzene hexachioride, which is commercially marketed a Kwell cream or lotion. 'After a bath. Kwell should be applied to the entire rindv hclow the chin and remain on for careful about money matters. 4-hours,' Rogers stated. 'The same treatment "S1" larfst l Jiould be repeated in seven days. Kwell should not J'" 'nvestment-their be applied close to body orifices, or mucous As a result, many homeowners membranes. It is for external ue only. If an infant are under-insured. Their in presents scab ie tic lesions on the face, Kwell cream surance protection hasn't kept up should be applied directly to the lesions and the with the rising value of their infant's hands restrained. property. Replacement values have more than doubled in the Rogers said it is not a disgrace to get scabies, pest ten inflation-riddled years, but it is to keep it. According to U.S. government ...and keep it they will if nothing is done " statistics, replacement cost are their full value, Then, if disaster Rater, warned. '-Scabies will eo on indefinite "if rising on the average of about strikes, you'll have the money it is not treated properly.'' wanted to repair or rebuild your house after a fire or natural disaster or replace its contents after damage or theft, you might pay as much as 25 per cent more than it was worth in 1971. If you have homeowner's in surance and wish to protect the value of your " property review your insurance policy. Take an annual inventory of household furnishings and other belongings. Insure your home and contents to six per cent per year. So if you you need to repair or rebuild.
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