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Acme Social Club is started.
Acme was one of several elite social and political clubs in San Diego, established around the turn of the 20th century when Black San Diegans began to own more businesses and to make inroads into the economic mainstream.
For more information on Black history in San Diego and to participate in Celebrate San Diego: Black History & Heritage at the San Diego History Center, go to sandiegohistory.org/exhibition/celebratesd blackhistoryheritage.
In honor of Black History Month, the Union-Tribune has partnered with the San Diego History Center to present items each day in February on local Black history.
White Fragility, has been on the
New York Times best-seller list for over two years, much of that time ranked number one. The book is assigned frequently in college courses, and DiAngelo is in great demand as a “diversity” consultant to help corporations, universities, government agencies, and other institutions purge themselves of their white privilege. DiAngelo’s core message is that white Americans need to acknowledge their unconscious racial biases which make them, unwittingly in most cases, complicit in what she deems the U.S. racial caste system.
In an error that aligns perfectly with her ideology, DiAngelo gets this episode of U.S. history all wrong.
IT is my honor, my pleasure and my duty to continue with the Black History Month Calendar of events. While it is a time for recognizing Black History, I am hopeful that this month will also be inspiring to the Local youth to be the FIRST in their Culture as there is a lot of accomplishments yet to be achieved by Locals. I used to tell my students that âI canât wait to see the FIRST Chamorro Astronaut the First Carolinian Captain of a Military Ship and the list goes.â I also hope the Historic Preservation Office is keeping records or will start keeping records of âLocal FIRST Accomplishmentsâ that can one-day be published in a local Calendar of the âFirst Accomplishments by Locals.âÂ
By Jessica MasonJan 18th, 2021, 5:55 pm
The Lincoln Memorial is iconic in the history of the Civil Rights movement. It was on the steps of the memorial to the President who signed the emancipation proclamation that Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech (which this country continues to view through a sanitized lens) during the March on Washington in 1963. And just 24 years prior, the Memorial was the sight of another watershed moment for civil rights and the fight against racial prejudice and segregation that is often forgotten: the groundbreaking concert from singer Marian Anderson on April 9, 1939.
In 1939, Marian Anderson was at the height of her operatic career. The contralto had sung on stages across Europe to immense acclaim and “Marian fever” from fans, finding greater success there than she had in American due to racism, but her star was now rising in the US as well. Since 1935, Anderson had given an annual concert at historically Black Howard Uni