Congresswoman, Yvonne Burke, born, 1932.

On this day in 1777, African Americans Replaced Reluctant Whites as, losses on the field of battle and rising White desertions reduced the Continental Army’s ranks of men.

Northern colonies began to accept African Americans, free and slave, because these colonies could not fill their quotas with White man.

Connecticut adopted a policy whereby White slave masters could avoid service in the army by providing one of his slaves to fight for America freedom.

The policy to allow slaves to substitute for White masters spread throughout the colonies

On this date in 1872, Educator, Booker T Washington, leaves Malden, West VA to enter Hampton Institute.

On this date in 1869, the First Reconstruction legislature (27 Blacks, 150 whites) met in Richmond, Virginia.

On this date in 1867, Monroe Baker, a well-to-do Black businessman, named mayor of St. Martin, Louisiana, two years after the end of slavery. Monroe Baker was the first Black mayor of any American city takes office.