The Center for the Church and the Black Experience celebrates Black History Month 2013

ACTIVIST CLAUDIA JONES BORN

February 15, 1915 - December 24, 1964 (49)

Claudia Jones born in Belmont, Trinidad and Tobago. She was a feminist, Black Nationalist, political activist, community leader, journalist, and communist in the U.S. She is also remembered in the UK as 'the mother of Notting Hill Carnival'. 

Jones is also the founder the West Indian Gazette, the first black newspaper in Britain in 1958.

1968 – FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO LEAD A MAJOR SYMPHONY

On this day in 1968 Henry Lewis became the conductor and musical director of the New Jersey Symphony becoming the first African-American to lead a major symphony orchestra.

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Throughout the month of February, Garrett-Evangelical's Center for the Church and the Black Experience will be providing Daily Knowledge Nuggets in honor of Black History Month. Content provided by: blackhistorydaily.com, aetnaafricanamericancalendar.com/2013, and theblackmarket.com/February.