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1865 - The first African American major in the
United States Army is a
physician,
Dr. Martin Robinson Delany.
1894 - Congress repeals the Enforcement Act, which
makes it easier for
some
states to disenfranchise African American voters.
1925 - Marcus Garvey is sent to federal prison in
Atlanta, Georgia for
mail
fraud in connection with the sale of stock in his Black
Star
Line. His prosecution was vigorously
advocated by several
prominent
African American leaders, including Robert Sengstacke
Abbott
and others. Garvey was railroaded
because of the power
he had
amassed over the African American population of America.
1925 - Students stage a strike at Fisk University to
protest the
policies
of the white administration at the school.
1944 - Harry S. McAlpin of the "Daily
World" in Atlanta, Georgia, is
the first
African American journalist accredited to attend
White
House press conferences.
1965 - Dr. Joseph B. Danquah, Ghanaian political
leader, joins the
ancestors. He had been the leader of the United Gold
Coast
Convention,
a political body which had pressed the British for
a gradual
relinquishing of colonial rule.
1968 - Gary Coleman is born in Zion, Ohio. He will become a child
actor
portraying "Arnold" in the television series, "Different
Strokes,"
which aired from 1978 to 1986.
1968 - Highway Patrol Officers kill three South
Carolina State
University
students during a demonstration in Orangeburg,
South
Carolina. Students are protesting
against a whites-only
Orangeburg
bowling alley.
1970 - Alonzo Mourning is born in Chesapeake,
Virginia. He will become
a
basketball star at Georgetown University and will go on to
play for
the NBA Miami Heat. He will be praised for his
courage
for making a comeback after undergoing a kidney
transplant
and years later winning his first NBA Championship
with the
Miami Heat in 2006. Prior to the Heat, he will play
for the
Charlotte Hornets and New Jersey Nets.
1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers
scores 27 points
while
leading his team to a 111-109 victory over the Boston
Celtics. Abdul-Jabbar passes Wilt Chamberlain's NBA
career
record of
12,682 field goals.
1986 - Oprah Winfrey becomes the first African
American woman to host
a
nationally syndicated talk show.
1986 - 5' 7" Spud Webb, of the Atlanta Hawks,
wins the NBA Slam Dunk
Competition.
1990 - CBS News suspends resident humorist Andy
Rooney for racial
comments
he supposedly made to a gay magazine, comments
Rooney
denies making.
1995 - The U.N. Security Council approves sending
7,000 peacekeepers
to Angola
to cement an accord ending 19 years of civil war.
2000 - Edna Griffin, an Iowa civil-rights pioneer
best known for
integrating
lunch counters, joins the ancestors at the age of
90. In 1948, Griffin led the fight against Katz
Drug Store in
downtown
Des Moines, which refused to serve blacks at its
lunch
counter. Griffin staged sit-ins, picketed in front of
the store
and filed charges against the store's owner, Maurice
Katz, who
was fined. The Iowa Supreme Court then enforced the
law which
made it illegal to deny service based on race.
She
organized
Iowans to attend the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s
1963
march on Washington, D.C., and helped start the former
radio
station KUCB. On May 15, 1999, Des Moines' mayor
proclaimed
"Edna Griffin Day." On
February 5, 2000, Griffin
was
inducted into the Iowa African American Hall of Fame.
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The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
"InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing
Book of Days," "Before the Mayflower", "Black Firsts" and
independent
research by the Information
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