December 16, 2021
Andrew Jackson Young, Jr.
On this day in 1976, President-Elect Jimmy Carter named Andrew Jackson Young, Jr, as the incoming US Ambassador to the United Nations.
Also on this day
The Clotilda was the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans directly from the shores of Africa to Mobile Bay in in Alabama on this day in 1859. Plantation owner Tim Meaher and Captain William Foster illegally operated this schooner that brought in the Africans, and after proceeded to destroy the ship and erase the events.
John Anthony Copeland and Shields Green, both Black men from Oberlin, Ohio, and members of John Brown’s band of would-be liberators, were executed for their role in the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
On this day in 1870, in Jackson, Tennessee, a group of Black Methodists from the South met to organize a new denomination, the Colored Methodists Episcopal Church, later renamed the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (CME).