Dec. 27:

On the second day of Kwanzaa, the defining principle is Kujichagulia or self-determination. Kujichagulia is the “right and responsibility to exist as a people and make their own unique contribution to the forward flow of human history.”

1862 – The African Methodist Episcopal Zion church was founded in New Bern, N.C.

1892 - Livingstone and Biddle College (now Johnson C. Smith) play the first Black intercollegiate football game in Salisbury, N.C.

1919 - A 23-year-old veteran named Powell Green was lynched by a mob of white men near Franklinton, N.C. After a “prominent” white movie theater owner was shot and killed, Powell Green was arrested for allegedly committing the crime.

1941 - Dr. Charles Richard Drew, the pioneer of blood plasma research, established a blood bank in New York City. Drew went to New York to direct the U.S. Blood for Britain project. He created a central location for the blood collection process of donors who wanted to give blood to British soldiers.

1949 - Nnamdi Azikiwe, the future first President of Nigeria, delivered an address to his fellow fraternity members at the Banneker High School Auditorium, Washington, D.C., at the 35th anniversary of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.

1956 - Federal Judge Dozier Devane granted a temporary injunction restraining city officials from interfering with integration of Tallahassee, Fla., city buses and said "every segregation act of every state or city is as dead as a doornail."

1956 - A planned front riding bus demonstration was called off when a group of about 200 whites gathered near the Park Avenue/Monroe Street bus transfer point. Governor Collins suspended bus service in Tallahassee on Jan. 1, 1957. On Jan. 7, Tallahassee repealed the segregated seating ordinance.

It set a precedent for the state as, city by city, public transportation was desegregated in Florida.