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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 America - The African American 

Book of Days," "Before the Mayflower", "Black Firsts" and 

independent research by the Information Man.

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