~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture

1962 – James Meredith, a black student, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Governor Ross R. Barnett. Meredith was later admitted

09/30/2025 Nativegrl77

September 20, 1962: Lt Governor Johnson Blocked James Meredith From Enrolling At Ole Miss
by Carletta Denise – September 20, 2016 – BLACK EDUCATION, Black First, BLACK MEN, BLACK POLITICS, BLACKS IN THE MILITARY, CIVIL RIGHTS, DID YOU KNOW, Injustices, JIM CROW, LATEST POSTS, Looking Black On Today, Missing From Textbooks, POLITICS, Racism

Armed with a court order, and escorted by federal marshals, Meredith tried to enter the university on Thursday, September. 20th. He was blocked by mobs and Mississippi Lt Governor Paul Johnson, defying the high court’s ruling.

James Meredith, a 28-year-old married veteran of the Air Force, had studied for two years at Jackson State University. But Meredith wanted a better legal education than the HBCU could offer, and he wanted to get it at Ole Miss.

For 16 months, James Meredith’s case was fought in the courts. Brown v. the Board of Education had come more than 8 years earlier, forbidding “separate but equal” public schools, NO university in the South–the great bastion of segregation–had yet integrated.
After twice being denied admission, with advice from the NAACP, Meredith took his case all the way to the Supreme Court, where he was finally granted the right to attend the all-white university.

Resources: on this day in history

Black Then

~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture

1881 – The American Red Cross provided relief for disaster for the first time. The disaster was the Great Fire of 1881 in Michigan.

09/30/2025 Nativegrl77

The first disaster relief provided by the American Red Cross benefited thousands of fire victims left destitute this day by the Great Fire of 1881.It had been a long hot summer in the ‘thumb-area’ of Michigan and small forest fires were burning. A southwest gale fanned the flames into an inferno. The fire raged for three days, scorching over a million acres… 282 people died in the blaze.

The American Association for the Relief of Misery on the Battlefields was a result of the International Red Cross and the forerunner of the American Association of the Red Cross. Clara Barton was instrumental in establishing the American chapter in 1881.

Over one hundred nations now have Red Cross associations. Each national society carries on its own program; however, all are united in their aim to prevent misery in time of war or peace and serve all people, regardless of race, nationality or religion.

The Red Cross flag (white background with a red cross) is the reverse of Switzerland’s flag where the first Red Cross was founded in 1863 … and that’s how the organization got its name.

440int.com

~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture

1781 – Los Angeles, CA, was founded by Spanish settlers. The original name was “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula,” which translates as “The Town of the Queen of Angels.”

09/30/2025 Nativegrl77

The Founding of Los Angeles, 1781, mural by Millard Sheets.

The founding of Los Angeles,1781 mural by Milliard Sheets.Univ Of Southern California Libraries And California Historical Societies

By BOB POOL

MARCH 26, 2005

12 AM

TIMES STAFF WRITER

The name of the game is historical accuracy. Everyone agrees on that.

What historians cannot agree on is the name given to Los Angeles when its Spanish founders formed it Sept. 4, 1781.

The early settlers meant to name the town after angels; that much is known. But for more than 75 years, local historians have been quarreling over its actual moniker.

Some contend it was El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora de los Angeles.

Others assert it was El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reyna de los Angeles.

Or perhaps it was El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora de los Angeles de la Porciuncula. Or El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reyna de los Angeles del Rio Porciuncula. Or maybe El Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles Sobre el Rio de Porciuncula. Or Pueblo del Rio de Nuestra Senora la Reyna de los Angeles de Porciuncula.

How about plain old Ciudad de los Angeles?

History books, scholarly papers, encyclopedia entries and bronze plaques scattered around the downtown Olvera Street plaza to commemorate the city’s birthplace use differing versions of the name.

And now the Historical Society of Southern California has produced a book in hopes of settling the dispute once and for all.

Fat chance. Or as the founding fathers might have put it: Ni cuando!

Instead, publication of “The Founding Documents of Los Angeles, A Bilingual Edition,” has only intensified the debate among historians about the city’s true first name — even pitting its editor against a longtime friend who thinks his thesis is wrong.

The book is a farewell project of longtime Los Angeles historian Doyce B. Nunis Jr. He retired this month after 43 years as editor of the historical society’s respected journal, the Southern California Quarterly.

for the complete article … latimes.com/archieves

~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture

1789 – The U.S. Treasury Department was established.

09/30/2025 Nativegrl77

History: On September 2, 1789, Congress established a “Department of Treasury” to manage the new federal government’s finances, and created the position of Secretary of the Treasury to run the new department.

Department of the Treasury – AllGov – Departments

http://www.allgov.com

~ politics petitions pollution and pop culture

1884 – The Equal Rights Party was formed in San Francisco, CA.

09/30/2025 Nativegrl77

Belva was not only a pioneer herself, but sponsored other trailblazers to the Court..

If a woman demonstrates that she is fitted to be president, she will someday occupy the White House. It will be entirely on her own merits, however. No movement will place her there simply because she is a woman. It will come if she proves herself fit for the position.

Equal Rights Party nomination. Dissatisfied with resistance by the men of the major parties to women’s suffrage, a small group of women announced the formation in 1884 of the Equal Rights Party . The Equal Rights Party held its national convention in San Francisco, California on September 20 ;nominating Belva Lockwood as its presidential candidate.

Resources:

wiki

TheHistoryChicks.com Episode