365 Black History: May 4th – Chicago Defender, Inventor Patents Home Convenience, & More

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The 365 Black History serious is designed to give our community a chance to learn and appreciate the achievement, struggles and experience of our ancestors, inventors, business people, scientific, educators, children and more.

On May 4th in Black history:

1891 – Dr. Daniel Hale Williams founded the Provident Hospital and Training School.

In 1889, Emma Reynolds, a young woman who aspired to be a nurse, was denied admission by each of Chicago’s nursing schools on the grounds that she was black. Her brother, the Reverend Louis Reynolds, pastor of St. Stephen’s African Methodist Episcopal Church, approached the respected black surgeon, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams for help. Unable to influence the existing schools, they decided to launch a new nursing school for black women.

In 1890, Dr. Williams consulted with a group of black ministers, physicians and businessmen to explore establishing a nurse-training facility and hospital. There were only a few black physicians in Chicago at this time, and all had limited or no hospital privileges. The community leaders assured him of their support and energetic fund-raising began.

1893 – Cowboy Bill Pickett earns his title as inventor of “bull dogging”.

1897 – J.W. Smith patents lawn sprinklers.

We don’t think about it much today, but innovation, invention and creation is in our blood. Lawn sprinklers have proven over the course of more than a century to be an invaluable addition for home and property owners around the world.

1905 – Robert S. Abbott begins publishing The Chicago Defender, Chicago’s first Black newspaper.

The Chicago Defender and the work of Robert S. Abbott has been invaluable to the struggle for existence for African Americans. It was consider the “most important” paper of what was then called the Negro Press, a growing group of black people savvy enough to understand the importance of media.

Abbott and the Chicago Defender took on important issues like Jim Crow, violence, encouraged Blacks to move from the South to the north during the Great migration. The paper went on to challenge segregation, the use of the military around the world, especially during World War II.

1961 – Congress On Racial Equality begins freedom rides to force desegregation of southern bus terminals.

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