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Joe's Daily U.S. History Lesson -- June 23
Category: Education
Duration: 00:07:00
Publish Date: 2018-06-16 16:00:15
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JUNE 23 -- 1927 -- Calvin Coolidge is adopted by the Sioux; 1888 Frederick Douglass first black to be nominated VP; 1972 Nixon passes Title IX; 1980 David Letterman Show debuts on NBC daytime

 

JUNE 23 1927 – Silent Cal dons a headdress. …The Sioux County Pioneer newspaper on North Dakota reports June 23 in 1927 that President Calvin Coolidge will be “adopted” into a Sioux tribe at Ft. Yates on the south-central border of North Dakota.

In anticipation of the president’s upcoming visit to the Black Hills region of North Dakota, the Sioux County Pioneer reported that a Sioux elder named Chauncey Yellow Rob, a descendant of Sitting Bull and an Indian school administrator, suggested that Coolidge be inducted into the tribe. The article stated that Yellow Robe graciously offered the president a most sincere and hearty welcome and hoped that Coolidge and his wife would enjoy rest, peace, quiet, and friendship among us. According to hrc.utexas.edu, Coolidge’s Indian Citizen Act of 1924 granted automatic US citizenship to all American tribes, and he personally felt a kinship and responsibility for the well-being of Native Americans.

However, or perhaps as a result of this, the official policy of forced assimilation, including forced attendance at all-English boarding schools for Native American children, continued unabated throughout his administration.

1888 – Frederick Douglass is nominated for VP of the US. …Born in February 1818, Douglass was an African American social reformer, orator, abolitionist, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory, incisive antislavery writing.

He stood as a living counter-example to slaveholder’ arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Many Northerners also found it hard to believe that such a great orate had been a slave. On June 23 1872, Douglass became the first African American nominated for the BP of the USA as Victoria Woodhull’s running mate on the Equal Rights Party ticket. He was nominated without his knowledge. Dougless neither campaigned for the ticket nor acknowledged that he had been nominated.

1972 – Nixon passes Title IX. … It requires gender equity for boys and girls in every7 educational program that receives federal funding. Not just sports, all facets of education. According to titleix.info, these include Access to higher education, career education, education for pregnant and parenting students, employment, learning environment, math and science, sexual harassment, standardized testing and technology. Unfortunately to this day, thousands of schools across the country are not in compliance with the law, more information on titleix.info.

1980 – David Letterman shows debuts on NBC daytime. …Since then Letterman surpassed friend and mentor Johnny Carson as the longest-serving late night talk show host in TV history, at 31 years. His last episode was May 20, 2015. His night show featured Stupid Tricks, Stupid Human Tricks, dropping stuff off a five story building, the Monkey Cam, plenty of other crazy stuff.
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