Hall of Fame/HallofFameCDROM.cdr/open/todaylee.lzh/TODAY.JAN

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*mmddyyyy Birthdays
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B01171759  Paul Cuffe born near Dartmouht, Massachusetts.
B01151929  Martin Luther King Jr. born in Atlanta. He was first given
B0115      the name of Michael Luther King Jr. The name was formally
B0115      changed to Martin at a later date.

*mmddyyyy Events
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S01061773 Massachusetts slaves petitioned the legislature for freedom.
S0106     There is a record of eight freedom petitions during the Rev
S0106     olutionary War period.
S01161776 Continental Congress approved Washington's order on the en
S0116     listment of free blacks.
S01201788 Pioneer African Baptist church organized in Savannah, Ga.,
S0120     with Andrew Bryan as pastor.
S01301797 Congress refused to accept the first recorded petitions from
S0130     American blacks. Sojourner Truth born a slave in Hurley, New
S0130     York. Boston Masons, led by Prince Hall, established first
S0130     black interstate organization, creating lodges in Philadel
S0130     phia and Providence, Rhode Island.
S01301800 United States population: 5,308,483. Black population 1,002,
S0130     037 (18.9 per cent).
S01021800 Antislavery petition from free blacks of Philadelphia pre
S0102     sented to Congress.
S01011804 Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaimed independence of Haiti,
S0101     the second republic in the Western Hemisphere.
S01051804 Ohio legislature passed the first of a succession of North
S0105     cern Black Laws which restricted the rights and movement of
S0105     free blacks in the North.  Most Northern states passed Black
S0105     Laws.  Constitutions of three states --Illinois, Indiana,
S0105     Oregon--barred black settlers.
S01101811 Louisiana slaves rebelled in two parishes about thirty-five
S01810    miles from New Orleans.  Revolt was suppressed by U.S. tro
S01810    ops. Philadelphia blacks held meetings at Bethel Church to
S01810    protest colonization society's campaign   "to exile us from
S01810    the land of our nativity."
S01211830 Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported by order of  city
S0121     officials.
S01011831 William Lloyd Garrison published first issue of abolitionist
S0101     journal, the liberator.
S01061832 New England Anti-Slavery Society organized at African Bap
S0106     tist Church on Boston's Beacon Hill.
S01011854 Lincoln University, one of the first black colleges, char
S0101     tered as Ashmun Institute in Oxford, Pennsylvania.
S01011863 President Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation which
S0101     freed slaves in rebel states with exception of thirteen par
S0101     ishes (including New Orleans) in Louisiana, forty-eight cou
S0101     ntries in West Virginia, seven countries (including Norfolk)
S0101     in Eastern Virginia.  Proclamation did not apply to slaves
S0101     in Border States.
S01261863 War Department authorized Massachusetts governor to recruit
S0126     black troops. The Fifty-fourths Massachusetts Volunteers was
S0126     first black regiment recuited in North.
S01151865 Black division, under command of Maj. Gen. Charles Paine,
S0115     participated in Fort Fisher (N.C.) expedition which closed
S0115     Confederate's last major port.
S01161865 Gen. William T. Sherman issued his Field Order No. 15 set
S0116     ting aside "the islands from Charleston, south, the aband
S0116     oned rice fields along the river for thirty miles back from
S0116     the sea, and the country bordering the St. John's River,
S0116     Florida," for exclusive settlement by blacks. The order pro
S0116     vided that "each family should have a plot of not more than
S0116     forty (40) acres of tillable ground...in the possession of
S0116     which land the military authorities will afford them protec
S0116     tion until such time as they can protect themselves...."
S0116     Gen. Rufus  Saxton, South Carolina Freedmen's Bureau direc
S0116     tor, later settled some 40,000 blacks on forty-acre tracts
S0116     in the area.  In South Carolina and other states black set
S0116     tlers were given possessory titles pending final action on
S0116     the confiscated and abandoned lands of Confederate rebels.
S0116     (See August below)
S01311865 Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment which, on ratifica
S0131     tion, abolished slavery in America.  The vote in the House
S0131     was 121 to 24.
S01091866 Fisk University established. Rust College (Miss.) and Lin
S0109     coln (Mo.) were also founded in 1866.
S01081867 Legislation giving the suffrage to blacks in the District
S0108     of Columbia was passed over President Andrew Johnson's veto.
S01071868 Mississippi constitutional convention (seventeen blacks,
S0107     eighty-three whites) met in Jackson.
S01071868 Arkansas constitutional convention (eight blacks, forty-
S0107     three whites) met in Little Rock.
S01141868 South Carolina constitutional convention, the first official
S0114     assembly in the West with a black majority, met in the Charl
S0114     eston Clubhouse with seventy-six black delegates and forty-
S0114     eight white delegates.  Two-thirds of the black delegates
S0114     were fomer slaves.  A New York Herald reporter wrote:  "Here
S0114     in Charleston is being enacted the most incredible, hopeful,
S0114     and yet unbelievable experiment in all the history of man
S0114     kind."
S01141868 North Carolina constitiutional convention (15 blacks, 118
S0114     whites) met in Releigh.
S01201868 Florida constitutional convention (eighteen blacks, twenty-
S0120     seven whites) met in Tallahassee.
S01131869 National convention of black leaders met in Washington, D.C.
S0113     Fredick Douglass was elected president.
S01101870 Georgia legislature reconvened and admitted black represen
S0110     tatives and senators.
S01111870 First reconstruction legislature met in Jackson, Missis
S0111     sippi. Thirty-one of the 106 representatives were black.
S0111     Five of the thirty-three senators were black.
S01201870 Hiram R. Revels elected to the U.S. Senate by the Missis
S0120     sippi legislature.  He was elected to fill the unexpired
S0120     term of Jefferson Davis.  The term ended on March 3, 1871.
S01161871 Jefferson F. Long of Georgia sworn in as the second black
S0116     Congressman.
S01021872 Mississippi legislature met.  John R Lynch was elected Spea
S0102     ker of the house at the age of twenty-four.
S01131873 P.B.S. Pinchback relinquished the office of governor, saying
S0113     at the inauguration of the new Louisiana governor: "I now
S0113     have the honor to formally surrender the office of governor,
S0113     with the hope that you will administer the government in
S0113     the interests of all the people [and that] your administra
S0113     tion will be as fair toward the class that I represent, as
S0113     mine has been toward the class represented by you."
S01141873 P.B.S. Pinchback elected to the U. S. Senate. Since he had
S0114     previously been elected to Congress, he went to Washington
S0114     with the unique distinction of being both a senator-elect
S0114     and a congressman-elect.
S01141874 I.D. Shadd elected Speaker of the lower house of the Missis
S0114     sippi legislature.
S01171874 Armed Democrats seized Texas government and ended Radical
S0117     Reconstruction in Texas.
S01051875 President Grant sent federal troops to Vicksburg, Missis
S0105     sippi.
S01241885 Death of Martin R. Delany (72) politician and black nation
S0124     alist, in Wilberforce, Ohio. United States population:
S0124     62,947,714.  Black population: 7,488,676 (11.9 per cent)
S01251890 National Afro-American League, Poineer black protest organi
S0125     zation, founded at Chicago meeting.  Joseph C. Price, Pre
S0125     sident of Livingstone College, was elected president.
S01221891 Lodge Bill, which called for federal supervision of U. elec
S0122     tions, abandoned in the Senate after a Southern filibuster.
S01111892 William D. McCoy of Indiana was appointed minister to Libe
S0111     ria.
S01161901 Death of Hiram Revels (73), Aberdeen, Mississippi.
S01291908 Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, founded at Cornell University
S0129     in 1906, incorporated.
S01011912 Second annual report of the NAACP listed total receipts from
S0101     may through December, 1911, of $10,317.43.  Organization had
S0101     local chapters in Chicago, Boston and New York.
S01291913 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, founded at Howard University in
S0129     1908, incorporated.
S01291913 Black Americans celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Eman
S0129     cipation Proclamation.  Major celebrations were held at Jack
S0129     son, Mississippi, New Orleans and Nashville.  Three states--
S0129     Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey--appropriated money
S0129     for official celebrations of the event.
S01011916 First issue of Journal of Negro History Published.
S01171917 U.S. succeeded Denmark as the sovereign authority in the
S0117     Virgin Islands.
S01311920 Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, founded at Howard University in
S0131     1914, incorporated.
S01081922 Death of Col. Charles R. Young (58), Lagos, Nigeria.
S01111936 Charles Anderson entered Kentucky House of Representatives.
S01151941 Yancey Williams, a Howard University student, asked a feder
S0115     al court to order the secretary of war and other government
S0115     officials to consider his application for enlistment in the
S0115     Army Air Corps as flying cadet.
S01161941 The War Department announced formation of first Army Air
S0116     Corps squadron for black cadets.
S01161941 A black scientist helped save thousands of lives during wo
S0116     rld War II. Dr. Charles Richard Drew set up and ran the
S0116     pioneer blood plasma bank in Presbyterian Hospital in New
S0116     York City.  This bank served as one of the models for the
S0116     system of banks operated later by the american Red Cross.
S0116     On October 1, 1940, in response to a British Appeal Dr. Drew
S0116     was appointed medical director of the plasma project of
S0116     Great Britian.  As director of the first great experiment
S0116     in the gross production of human plasma, Dr. Drew created
S0116     models for later developments in the United States and Eu
S0116     rope.  When the project ended in 1941, Dr. Drew became the
S0116     first director of a new project charged with the responsi
S0116     bility of setting up fonor stations to collect blood plasma
S0116     for the American armed services.  He resigned three months
S0116     later and became professor of surgery at Howard University.
S0116     Under an American Red Cross ruling in World War II, Dr.
S0116     Drew's blood, ironically enough, would have been segreated
S0116     from the blood of white donors.
S01051943 William H. Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, re
S0105     signed to protest segregation and discrimination in armed
S0105     forces.
S01091946 Death of poet Countee Cullen (42), New York City.
S01031947 NAACP report said 1946 was "one of the grimmest years in
S0103     the history of the National Association for the Advancement
S0103     of Colored People."  The report deplored "reports of blow
S0103     torch killing and eye-gouging of Negro veterans freshly re
S0103     turned from a war to end torture and racial extermination"
S0103     and said "Negroes in America have been disillusioned over
S0103     the wave of lynchings, brutality and official recession from
S0103     all of the flamboyant promises of post war democracy and
S0103     decency."  Congressman William L. Dawson elected chairman of
S0103     House Expenditures Committee.  He was the first black to
S0103     head a standing committee of Congress.  United States Pop
S0103     ulation:  150,697,361.  Black population: 15,042,286 (10
S0103     per cent).
S01121948 U.S. Supreme Court decision (Sipuel v. Oklahoma State Board
S0112     of Regents) said an state must afford blacks "an opportunity
S0112     to commence the study of law at a state institution at the
S0112     same time as [other] citizens."
S01181949 Congressman William L. Dawson elected chairman of House Ex
S0118     penditures Committee.  He was the first black to head a
S0118     standing committee of Congress.
S01151950 More than 4,000 delegates from one hundred national organi
S0115     zations attended National Emergency Civil Rights Conference
S0115     in Washington.
S01121952 University of Tennessee admitted first black student.
S01071955 Marian Anderson made debut at Metropolitan Opera House as
S0107     Alrica in Verdi's Masked Ball.  She was the first black sin
S0107     ger in the company's history.
S01011956 Sudan proclaimed independent.
S01301956 Home of Martin Luther King Jr. Montgomery bus boycott leader
S0130     bombed.
S01031961 Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of the House Education
S0103     and Labor Committee.
S01111961 Riot, University of Georgia.  Two black students Charlayne
S0111     Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were suspended but a federal
S0111     court ordered them reinstated.  They returned to classes
S0111     on January 16.
S01161962 Suit accusing New York City Board of Education of using "ra
S0116     cial quotas" filed in U.S.  District Court on behalf of bla
S0116     ck and Puerto Rican children.
S01181962 Southern University closed becaused of demonstrations prote
S0118     sting explusion of sit-in activists.
S01231962 Demonstrations against discrimination in off-campus housing
S0123     staged by students at University of Chicago,  January 23-
S0123     February 5.  CORE charged that the University operated segre
S0123     gated apartment houses.
S01311962 Lt. Comdr. Samuel L. Gravely assumed command of destroyer
S0131     escort, USS Falgout.  Navy said he was the first black to
S0131     command a U.S. warship.
S01211964 Carl T. Rowan named director of the United States Informa
S0121     tion Agency.
S01231964 Twenty-fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution eliminated
S0123     poll tax requirements in federal elections.
S01021965 Voter registration drive, led by Martin Luther King Jr.,
S0102     started in Selma, Alabama.
S01121965 Lorraine Hanbsberry (34) died in New York City.
S01031966 Floyd B. McKissick, North Carolina attorney, named national
S0103     director of Congress of Racial Equality.
S01161966 Harold R. Perry became second black Roman Catholic bishop
S0116     in U.S. history.
S01171966 Martin Luther King Jr. opened campaign in Chicago.
S01101966 Julian Bond, communications director of the Student Nonvio
S0110     lent Coordinating Committee, denied seat in Georgia House
S0110     of Representatives because of his opposition to Vietnam War.
S01181966 Robert C. Weaver was sworn in as secretary of housing and
S0118     urban development and became the first black cabinet member.
S01091967 Georgia legislature, bowing to legal decisions and national
S0109     pressure, seated Rep. Julian Bond, a critic of the Vietnam
S0109     War.
S01161967 Lucius D. Amerson, first black sheriff in the SOuth in the
S0116     twentieth century, sworn in at Tuskegee (Macon County),
S0116     Alabama.  First black government installed in the Bahamas.
S01031969 Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. seated by Congress.
S01021970 United States population: 293,200,000.  Black population:
S0102     22,600,000 (11.1 per cent).  Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, president
S0102     -emeritus, Morehouse College, named president of Atlanta
S0102     Board of Education.
S01171970 John M. Burgess installed as bishop of the Protestant Epis
S0117     copal diocese of Massachusetts.
S01041971 Dr. Melvin H. Evans inaugurated as the first elected gover
S0104     nor of the Virgin Islands.
S01041971 Congesssional Black Caucus organized.
S01061971 Cecil A. Partee elected president pro tem of the Illinois
S0106     state senate.
S01211971 Twelve black congressman boycotted Richard Nixon's State of
S0121     the Union message because of his "consistent refusal" to
S0121     respond to the petitions of black Americans.
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