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* Today in Black History - February 18 *
1688 - The first formal protest against slavery by an organized white
body in the English American colonies is made by Germantown,
Pennsylvania Quakers and Mennonites at a monthly meeting. The
historic "Germantown Protest" denounces slavery and the slave
trade.
1865 - Confederate Troops abandon Charleston, South Carolina. The
first Union troops to enter the city include the Twenty-first
U.S. Colored Troops, followed by two companies of the Fifty-
fourth Massachusetts Volunteers.
1867 - The Augusta Institute is founded in Georgia. It is established
as an institution of higher learning for African American
students, and moves to Atlanta in 1879. In 1913, the name is
changed to Morehouse College.
1894 - Paul Revere Williams is born in Los Angeles, California. He
will become one of the most famous African American
architects, designer of private residences in Los Angeles,
the Hollywood YMCA, the Beverly-Wiltshire Hotel, UCLA's Botany
Building and many others. Among his many awards will be the
NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1953.
1931 - Toni Morrison is born in Lorain, Ohio. She will become one of
the most celebrated modern novelists of the 20th century,
winning the National Book Critics Award in 1978 for "Song of
Solomon" and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 for
"Beloved." In 1993, she will become the first African
American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1965 - Gambia gains its independence from Great Britain.
1973 - Palmer Hayden dies in New York City. One of the principal
artists of the Harlem Renaissance who, like Henry 0. Tanner
and others, studied in Paris, his most enduring work often
depicted everyday scenes of African American life.
1979 - The miniseries "Roots: The Next Generations" premiers on ABC TV.
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