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******* Today in Black History – March 10, 2010 ********
1850 - Hallie Quinn Brown is born in Pittsburgh,
will
become a Black educator and elocutionist who will
pioneer
the movement for Black women’s clubs in the United
States.
The daughter of former slaves, she will receive a
B.S. from
Wilberforce University in Ohio in 1873. She will
then
teach on plantations and in the public schools of
Mississippi
and South Carolina. After graduating from the
Chautauqua
Lecture School, and teaching in Dayton, Ohio,
and in
Alabama, she will return to Wilberforce to teach
elocution.
At that time she will begin her extensive travels
as an
elocutionist and lecturer, speaking in Europe as well
as the
United States on topics of the life of Blacks in
America.
She will assist in founding the earliest women’s
clubs for
Blacks and, from 1905 to 1912, will serve as
president
of the Ohio State Federation of Colored Women’s
Clubs.
She will also help to found the Colored Women’s
League of
Washington, D.C., a predecessor of
the
National Association of Colored Women. She will also
author
"Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction,"
a 1926
collection of biographical sketches of notable
African
American women. She will join the ancestors on
September
16, 1949, in Wilberforce, Ohio.
1863 - Two U.S. African American infantry regiments,
the First and
Second
South Carolina Volunteers, capture and occupy
Jacksonville,
Florida, causing panic along the Southern
seaboard. These regiments are not to be confused with
the
confederate
army First South Carolina Volunteers Infantry
Regiment.
1910 - The Pittsburgh Courier begins
publishing. It will become one
of the
most influential African American newspapers in the
country. In 1966, it will change its name to the
"New
Pittsburgh
Courier," and continue to operate as a semi-weekly
publication. In 1987, the Courier will be the winner of
the
John B.
Russwurm award for excellence in responsible
journalism
given by the National Newspaper Publishers
Association
to the top African American Newspapers in America.
1913 - Harriet Tubman joins the ancestors in Auburn,
New York. An
escaped
slave, Tubman was known to the Underground Railroad as
"Black
Moses" for her heroic trips south to free hundreds of
slaves. During the Civil War, she served as a scout,
spy,
cook, and
nurse.
1963 - Jasmine Guy is born in Boston,
Massachusetts. She will become
an
actress on television and will be best known for her role
as
"Whitley" in the series "A Different World."
1969 - James Earl Ray pleads guilty in the first
degree to the murder
of Dr.
Martin L. King, Jr. and will be sentenced to 99 years
in
prison. The House Select Committee on
Assassinations will
later
state that although it believes Ray shot King, Ray was
part of a
larger conspiracy. Ray will later
repudiate that
plea,
maintaining his innocence until his death.
1972 - Three thousand delegates and five thousand
observers attend
the first
African American political convention in Gary,
Indiana. The NAACP and other groups withdraw from the
convention
after the adoption of resolutions that are critical
of busing
and the state of Israel.
1990 - Haitian ruler Lt. Gen. Prosper Avril resigns
during a popular
uprising
against his military regime.
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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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