Dec. 3, 1922: Former US Congressman Charles C. Diggs Jr. is born

On this day in 1922, Charles Coles Diggs, Jr. is born.

He will attend both the University of Michigan and Fisk University.
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Diggs will
serve as a member of the state senate, representing the 3rd District between 1951 and 1954, just as his father did from 1937 to 1944.

He will hold the distinction of being the first African-American in state history to be elected to the U.S. Congress.

First elected at age 31 in 1954, Diggs will represent a portion of Detroit between 1955 and 1980. Joining Chicago’s William Dawson and Harlem’s Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. as the only African-Americans in Congress, he will serve as a progressive force on Capitol Hill backing civil rights legislation for Americans but also being one who has a passion for assisting young democracies in Africa and elsewhere. He, for example, will provide comfort to a grieving mother and attend the murder trial of white men who are accused of killing a 13-year-old African-American boy named Emmett Till, a Chicago resident. Till was brutally slain in Jim Crow Mississippi in 1955.

In 1969, Diggs will help to found and serve as chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, an advocacy unit of federal lawmakers dedicated to supporting policy and spending efforts geared toward African-Americans. He will be charged on June 3, 1980 with ethical violations: mail fraud and falsifying payroll forms in the late 1970s. He will resign from the U.S. House of Representatives but maintain his innocence.

Diggs will live in Maryland toward the end of his life and join the ancestors on August 24, 1998.

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Ken Coleman

Ken Coleman, the author of On this Day: African-American Life in Detroit, is a native Detroiter and former news reporter. He served on the Detroit Charter Revision Commission. He lives in Detroit with his wife, Kim Trent, and their son, Jackson Coleman.

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