0* Today in Black History - January 26 *
1863 - The War Department authorizes the governor of Massachusetts
to enlist African American troops to fight in the Civil
War. The 54th and 55th Volunteer Infantry are the result.
1897 - At the Battle at Bida, British troops defeat Nupe's army.
1893 - Bessie Coleman was born in Altanta, Texas, the tenth of
thirteen children. She will grow up to become the first
African American female pilot (June 15, 1921) and the first
woman to obtain an international flying license (from the
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale). She will join the
ancestors on April 30, 1926, after being thrown from her
airplane in Jacksonville, Florida.
1932 - George H. Clements is born in Chicago, Illinois. He will
become a priest in the Washington, DC area nationally known
for his anti-drug activism and involvement in the group "One
Church, One Addict." In 1981, he will gain public attention
when he becomes the first Roman Catholic priest to adopt a
child. The same year, he will found the "One Church,
One Child" Program in Chicago at the Holy Angels Church, a
predominantly black Catholic church. His goal will be to
recruit black adoptive parents through local churches. Rev.
Clements will be named to the National Committee for
Adoption's Hall of Fame in 1989 for his outstanding
leadership and the great interest he generated in black
adoptions. The One Church, One Child program will become a
national recruiting effort in 1988, and 32 states will use
all or portions of the program. Its originally envisioned
mission is to combine the resources of the church and the
state to the end of recruiting black adoptive parents to
provide permanent homes for Black children awaiting adoption.
1934 - The Apollo Theatre opens in New York City as a 'Negro
vaudeville theatre'. It will become the showplace for many
of the great African American entertainers, singers, groups
and instrumentalists in the country. The saying will
become common "If you made it... you played it..." at the
Apollo Theatre.
1934 - Huey "Piano" Smith is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He will
become a Rhythm and Blues pianist and will be best known for
his recording of "Having a Good Time." His piano playing
will incorporate the boogie styles of Pete Johnson, Meade Lux
Lewis, and Albert Ammons, the jazz style of Jelly Roll Morton
and the rhythm-and-blues style of Fats Domino. AllMusic
journalist Steve Huey will note that "At the peak of his game,
Smith epitomized New Orleans R&B at its most infectious and
rollicking, as showcased on his classic signature tune, 'Don't
You Just Know It.'" In 2000, he will be honored with a Pioneer
Award by the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.
1943 - Sherian Grace Cadoria is born in Marksville, Louisiana. She will
make her career in the United States Army after graduating from
Southern University in Louisiana. In 1985, she will be promoted
to brigadier general, making her the highest ranking African
American woman in the U.S. military. She will be the first woman
elevated to that rank in the Provost Marshal Corps. She will
eventually become Director of Manpower and Personnel for the
Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Cadoria will
say that she has "gotten more pressure from being a woman in a
man's world than from being black." She will accomplish many
firsts: she will be the first woman to command a battalion; the
first woman to command a criminal investigation brigade; the
first African American woman director for the Joint Chiefs of
Staff; and the first woman to attend the Army’s top colleges,
Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College.
She will be the senior African American female general in the U.S.
Armed Forces upon her retirement in November 1990 after serving
29 years. Following retirement, General Cadoria will found her
own business, Cadoria Speaker and Consultancy Service. On November
11, 2002, she will become the first woman and the first African
American inducted into the Louisiana Military Veterans Hall of
Honor.
1944 - Angela Yvonne Davis is born in Birmingham, Alabama. Active in civil
rights demonstrations and in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee, she will be fired twice from the University of California
at Los Angeles because of her Communist Party affiliation and she
will successfully sue for reinstatement. A philosopher and author,
she will flee the law after being implicated in the 1970 Soledad
Brothers shooting. After sixteen months in jail, she will be
acquitted of all charges.
1958 - Anita Baker is born in Toledo, Ohio. A singer of ballads and jazz-
inspired Rhythm and Blues, her 1986 album "Rapture" will sell five
million copies and earn her a 1987 Grammy. She will win two more in
1989.
1970 - Kirk Franklin is born in Ft. Worth, Texas. He will become a Grammy
Award winning, platinum-selling musician who will blend gospel, hip
hop, and Rhythm & Blues in the 1990s. He will release his first gospel
album, "Kirk Franklin & Family," in 1993, and will be known as the
leader of contemporary gospel choirs such as Kirk Franklin & the
Family, Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation, God's Property and Kirk Franklin
Presents 1NC. He will integrate hip hop styles with gospel themes in
albums such as "The Nu Nation Project and God's Property, which will
achieve success on the Billboard Pop Album, Rhythm & Blues and gospel
charts. He will collaborate with the biggest names in gospel music,
including Mary Mary, Tonex, Donnie McClurkin, Richard Smallwood, Crystal
Lewis, Pastor Shirley Caesar, tobyMac, Jaci Valesquez, and Willie Neal
Johnson. He will also display a willingness to collaborate with artists
from the secular realm, including Bono, Mary J. Blige, and R. Kelly on
the hit single from his album Nu Nation Project, "Lean on Me."
1990 - Elaine Weddington Steward is named assistant general manager of the
Boston Red Sox. She becomes the first African American female executive
of a professional baseball organization.
2003 - Serena Williams defeats Venus Williams (7-6, 3-6, 6-4) at the 91st Women's
Australian Open.
2005 - Dr. Condoleezza Rice is confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Secretary of State.
She becomes the first African American woman to hold this post.
2010 - Paul R. Jones, a collector of African American art who donated thousands of
works to universities in Delaware and Alabama, joins the ancestors in
Atlanta, Georgia, at the age of 81. "My goal has been to incorporate
African American art into American art," he told The Tuscaloosa News in
2008 when he made his donation to the University of Alabama with a plan for
it to be part of the curriculum. He embraced the school even though he was
turned down by the University of Alabama Law School in 1949 after it
discovered he was Black.
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