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*******  Today in Black History – March 10, 2010  ********

                                                  

1850 - Hallie Quinn Brown is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She

      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 America - The African American 

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

independent research by the Information Man.

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