NAACP organizes the Education Fund and Legal Defense, 1939

Jamaican national hero, Paul Bogle, leads a successful protest march to the Morant Bay Courthouse, 1865

Lecture 6 of Clay Carsons Introduction to African-American History Course (HIST 166) concentrating on the Modern Freedom Struggle (Fall 2007). This lecture is entitled Martin Luther King, Jr.s Social Gospel. Recorded October 11, 2007 at Stanford University.

This course introduces the viewer to African-American history, with particular emphasis on the political thought and protest movements of the period after 1930, focusing on selected individuals who have shaped and been shaped by modern African-American struggles for freedom and justice. Clayborne Carson is a professor in the History Department at Stanford University.

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On October 11, 1975, the Theta Iota (ΘI) Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated, one of the nine major predominately Black Fraternities and Sororities known as ‘The Divine 9,’ was chartered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Theta Iota Chapter was chartered by eight MIT students who were initiated into the Fraternity’s Chi (X) Chapter, which covers all of Boston and was founded in 1924:

William A. Black, Bernard H. Robinson, Fredrick Thompson, Stanley J. Washington, Leonard Nethersole, Samuel Nixon Jr., Glenn E. Perkins Jr. and Philip G. Hampton.

The Theta Iota Chapter enrolls students from MIT, Harvard and Tufts.

Like Chi Chapter, Theta Iota Chapter has spun off several Fraternity Chapters in the New England region of the United States: Mu Chi (MX) Chapter at Dartmouth College, Nu Tau (NT) Chapter at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Nu Psi Chapter (NΨ) at the University of Connecticut.

Notable Theta Iota Brothers include Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson and United States Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite.

Prison uprising, Washington, D.C., jail.

C.O. Bailiff patented the shampoo headrest.

Aiken was born on October 11, 1975 in Columbia, South Carolina to Charles and Valerie Aiken.

Comedian John Elroy Sanford, Redd Foxx, dies at age 68.

John Newington Conna died in Fairbanks, Alaska on October 11, 1921 at the age of 85.

Robert Nathaniel Dett was born October 11, 1882 in Drummondville, Ontario, Canada, a town founded prior to the American Civil War by fugitive slaves from the U.

The elevator as well as safety devices for elevators where invented

by Alexander Miles, Patent # 371,207

GladysE. Kidd, educator, nutritionist, mentor, philanthropist, and granddaughter ofslaves was born on October 11, 1925 in Columbus,Ohio to Henry Wesley Cooper, aPresbyterian minister and Charlotte Melinda Cooper, a schoolteacher.   She attended the all black elementary andmiddle schools. While in high school, she developed an interest in hospital dietetics.  In 1945 Kidd earned her BS from Ohio StateUniversity in Dietetics.The following year she continued her studies, enrolling in a graduate programin foods and nutrition at Washington State College (now Washington StateUniversity, WSU).  Her graduate research focused on the impact theprototype microwave oven had on the nutritional content of frozen peaches.  In 1948 Kidd became the first AfricanAmerican woman and person of color to earn a masters degree from WSU.

Following graduateschool, Kidd devoted her career and research to improving health throughnutrition and safe food. In 1954 she received a Fulbright Fellowship to Queen ElizabethCollege at the University of London.  During the 1950s and 1960s she held variouspositions in her field. Kidd taught at Syracuse University,North Carolina College (now North Carolina CentralUniversity), and chaired from1955-1961 the Home Economics Department at SpelmanCollege in Atlanta. While in academia, she also authored several essays on nutrition.  She was married to James Kidd from l961-l963and worked as a registered dietitian at GrantHospital in her hometown of Columbus.

In 1966 Kidd returnedto WSU as an associate professor of foods and nutrition -in the Department ofFoods and Nutrition, and Institute Management.  In this position, she conducted research onimproving the dietary habits of Africans and African Americans.  In the late 1960s Kidd served on a campuscommittee that developed WSUs first Black Studies courses.  She also created and taught Black CommunityHealth and Nutrition, a Black Studies course.  At the age of 43 and single, she adopted Lavern and in 1973 marriedClifford Jennings, a media services technician