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2017
in the United States of America
will start on Wednesday, February 1 and will end on Tuesday, February 28
Thomas L. Jennings
(1791 – February 12, 1856)
[Death Record Thomas L. Jennings NYC #447562]
was a free African-American tradesman and abolitionist in New York City, New York. He owned and operated a tailoring and dry-cleaning business, and, in 1821, he was the first African American to be granted a patent for the first ever dry cleaner.
Jennings actively worked for civil rights for the black community. In 1831, he was selected as assistant secretary to the First Annual Convention of the People of Color in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He helped arrange legal defense for his daughter, Elizabeth Jennings, in 1854 when she challenged a private streetcar company's segregation of seating and was arrested. She was defended by the young Chester Alan Arthur {whom later became the 21st President of the United States * In office September 19, 1881 – March 4, 1885}, and won her case the next year-1855.
Elizabeth Jennings was born free in March 1827 and later became a school teacher and church organist. A century before Rosa Parks {Rosa Louise McCauley Parks born February 4, 1913, went home to Heaven October 24, 2005, was a civil rights activist known for the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott), Elizabeth Jennings Graham stepped onto a horse-drawn street car in New York City, 1854. The conductor demanded she leave; she refused and was arrested. She sued and won in 1855. Her case led to the eventual desegration of NYC's public transit, and to the Civil Rights Act of 1875 (18 Stat. 335–337), sometimes called Enforcement Act or Force Act. It was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era to guarantee African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury service. The bill was passed by the 43rd United States Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on
March 1, 1875.
Several years later, the Supreme Court ruled in Civil Rights Cases (1883) that sections of the act were unconstitutional.
The drafting of the bill was performed early in 1870 by Senator Charles Sumner, a dominant Radical Republican in the Senate, with the assistance of John Mercer Langston, a prominent African American who established the law department at Howard University.
With two other prominent black leaders, Thomas L. Jennings organized the Legal Rights Association in 1855 in New York, which raised challenges to discrimination and organized legal defense for court cases.
He also was a trustee of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, a leader in the black community. The congregation began after an incident in 1808, when visiting free Ethiopian seamen and allied African-American parishioners left the First Baptist Church in protest over being restricted to racially segregated seating. They named their new congregation the Abyssinian Baptist Church after the historic name of Ethiopia. Founded in 1809, it was the third oldest Baptist church in America.
Tuesday,
February 14th, 2017
Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is an annual holiday celebrated on February 14. It originated as a Western Christian Liturgical feast.
On February 14, across the United States and in other places around the world, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine.
One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine’s actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.
Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons, where they were often beaten and tortured.
Monday,
February 20th, 2017
In the United States, Presidents Day is always celebrated on the third Monday of February.
How many of our Presidents have you heard or read about? What are some of their accomplishments?
^Barack Obama
2009-2017^
The Current 45th President of the USA 2017
Donald John Trump
Portrait below of Chester Alan Arthur as a young lawyer, Created: January 1, 1858 by Rufus Anson (active 1851-1867) operated a studio in New York City. - Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery, Public Domain
Young Chester Alan Arthur {above 1858} was the lawyer that defended Elizabeth Jennings, 1854-1855, when she challenged a private streetcar company's segregation of seating and was arrested.
In his later years, he became the 21st President of the United States of America.
^1881 portrait of
21st President Chester A. Arthur
By Ole Peter Hansen Balling^
Chester Alan Arthur
Chester Alan Arthur was an American attorney and politician who served as the 21st President of the United States; he succeeded James A. Garfield upon the latter's assassination. Wikipedia
Chester Arthur's Baptist minister father, William Arthur, was originally from Ireland, and his mother, Malvina Stone Arthur, was from Vermont. During Chester Arthur’s childhood, his family moved around Vermont and upstate New York for his father’s work.
William Arthur had spent a brief time studying law. However, he departed from his legal studies and his Presbyterian upbringing to join the Free Will Baptists {a denomination and group of people that believe in free grace, free salvation and free will. The movement can be traced back to the 1600s with the development of General Baptism in England. Its formal establishment is widely linked to the English theologian, Thomas Helwys who lead the Baptist movement to believe in generalized atonement. He was an advocate of religious liberty at a time when to hold to such views could be dangerous and punishable by death. He died in prison as a consequence of the religious persecution of Protestant dissenters under King James I.}; he spent the rest of his life as a minister in that sect.
William Arthur became an outspoken abolitionist, which often made him unpopular with members of his congregations and contributed to the family's frequent moves. In 1828, the family moved to Fairfield, where Chester Alan Arthur was born the following year. The family remained in Fairfield until 1832, when William Arthur's profession took them on the road again, to churches in several towns in Vermont and upstate New York. The family finally settled in the Schenectady, New York area.
The family's frequent moves later spawned accusations that Chester Arthur was not a native-born citizen of the United States. When Arthur was nominated for vice president in 1880, a New York attorney and political opponent, Arthur P. Hinman, initially speculated that Arthur was born in Ireland and did not come to the United States until he was fourteen years old. Had that been true, opponents might have argued that Arthur was constitutionally ineligible for the vice presidency under the United States Constitution's natural-born-citizen clause. When Hinman's original story did not take root, he spread a new rumor that Arthur was born in Canada. This claim, too, failed to gain credence.
Above reference for Chester Alan Arthur & family, from: wikipedia the online free encyclopedia and from history.com
to 1955
IF AND WHEN WE FORGET GOD
DEUTERONOMY 8:11-20 NKJV
11/ “Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, 12/ lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; 13/ and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; 14/ when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; 15/ who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock; 16/ who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end— 17/ then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’
18/ “And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. 19/ Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. 20/ As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God.
See: Curses for Disobedience Deuteronomy 28:15-68 NLT @ WBS #106 WILL YOU HONOR GOD? WILL YOU BE AN INSTRUMENT FOR HIS USE?
THE HATEFUL OPPRESSION THAT GOD DELIVERED US FROM AND CAUSED US TO TRIUMPH OVER INDIVIDUALLY AND AS A NATION!!!
Romans 8:37
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him {JESUS} who loved us.
LET'S NOT HAVE A REPEAT OF IT ANYMORE, FOREVER!!!
REVIEW WBS #56 "OFFENSES & OPPRESSORS"
REVIEW WBS #38 "ABOUT NAME CALLING"
Not everyone who claims to be a Christian is really a Christian/follower of Christ!!!
MATTHEW 7:21 NKJV
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
MATTHEW 15:7 thru 9 NKJV
7/ Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: 8/ ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. 9/ And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”
1 John 4:20-21 NKJV*
20/ If someone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21/ And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.
The Most Important Commandments given by Jesus:
1/ LOVE GOD & 2/ LOVE ALL PEOPLE
Matthew 5:43-48
Love Your Enemies
43/ “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44/ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45/ that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46/ For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47/ And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? 48/ Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
Acts 10:34, 35 KJV
34/ .........God is no respecter of persons:
35/ But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
REVIEW WBS #102 WALKING IN LOVE
Elizabeth Jennings {left side of picture} fought segragation of seating on public transportation 1854-1855.
Rosa Parks {right side of picture} one hundred years later, was also jailed for fighting segragation of seating on public transportation in 1955.
^Street cars in 1854 were horse-drawn, privately run and mostly segregated.^
Another Civil Rights Act of 1957, Pub.L. 85–315, 71 Stat. 634, enacted September 9, 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
In 1957, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was 28 years old and a developing leader in the civil rights movement; he spoke out against white supremacists. Segregationists had burned African-American churches, centers of education and organizing related to voter registration, and physically attacked African Americans, including women, who were activists.
Ecclesiastes 1:8-9 NKJV
8/ All things are full of labor; Man cannot express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing. 9/ That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.
President Chester A. Arthur was challenged by political opponent, Arthur P. Hinman's, Birthers 1880’s Style!
President Barack H. Obama was challenged by opponent Donald J. Trump's, Birthers 2011 style!
Neither times, back then, 1880's or over 100 years later, 2011, did the "Birther" ploy hold any credence!
Summary of our 21st President, 1881-1885, Chester A. Arthur, who succeeded President James Garfield upon his assassination.
Information directly above, obtained from: www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/chesterarthur
The Presidential biographies on WhiteHouse.gov are from “The Presidents of the United States of America,” by Frank Freidel and Hugh Sidey. Copyright 2006 by the White House Historical Association.
Some information also above obtained from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Ephesians 2:11-13
11/ Don’t forget that you Gentiles used to be outsiders. You were called “uncircumcised heathens” by the Jews, who were proud of their circumcision, even though it affected only their bodies and not their hearts. 12/ In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope. 13/ But now you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ.
BLACK, BROWN, RED, YELLOW, & WHITE, ALL ARE BEAUTIFUL & PRECIOUS IN GOD'S SIGHT!!!
WITH THE SON OF GOD
{ISAIAH 9:6}
UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN; AND
THE GOVERNMENT WILL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER.
LEARN FROM YOUR HISTORY!!!
IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY DONE SO, BE SURE TO REVIEW
"SOME USA FEBRUARY 2016 OBSERVANCES"
Philippians 4:13
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