December 8, 2021
Sammy George Davis, Jr.
Sammy George Davis, Jr., was a vaudevillian singer, dancer, and actor who was born on this day in 1925. He is considered ‘the greatest entertainer ever to grace a stage in these United States’. in America.
Also on this day
Thurgood Marshall led the arguments before the Supreme Court on this day in 1953 in the famous Brown v Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas.
On this day in 1863, President Lincoln issued his Proclamation on Amnesty and Reconstruction on how the rebellious states would be reintegrated into the Union. It was a continuation of Lincoln’s plans to issue war measures designed to weaken the Confederacy; he had issued the Emancipation Proclamation earlier in 1863.
Lucy Ann Stanton was born a free woman in Cleveland Ohio and later became the first African American woman to graduate with a bachelor’s degree on this day in 1850. She graduated from Oberlin College.