*               Today in Black History - April 11               *

1865 - President Lincoln recommends suffrage for African American 
	veterans and African Americans who are "very intelligent."

1881 - Spelman College is founded with $100 and eleven former 
	slaves determined to learn to read and write. It is opened 
	as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary. The two female 
	founders, Sophia B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles are 
	appalled by the lack of educational opportunities for 
	African American women at the time. They will return to 
	Boston determined to get support to change that and earned 
	what will prove to be the lifelong support of John D. 
	Rockefeller, who considers Spelman to be one of his 
	family's finest investments. The name Spelman is adopted 
	later in honor of Mrs. Rockefeller's parents.

1933 - Tony Brown is born in Charleston, West Virginia. He will 
	become well known as executive producer, host, and 
             moderator of the Emmy-winning television series "Black 
             Journal." In 1971 he will establish and become the first dean 
             of Howard University's School of Communications, a post he 
             will hold until 1974.

1955 - Roy Wilkins is elected the NAACP's executive secretary 
	following the ancestral ascension of Walter White.

1956 - Singer Nat "King" Cole is attacked on the stage of a 
	Birmingham theater by white supremacists.

1966 - Emmett Ashford becomes the first African American major 
	league umpire, working in the American League.  He had been 
	the first African American professional umpire in the minor 
	leagues in 1951.

1967 - Harlem voters defy Congress and re-elect Congressman Adam 
	Clayton	Powell Jr. after he had been expelled by the 
	legislative body.

1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs what will become known as 
	the 1968 Housing Act, which outlaws discrimination in the 
	sale, rental, or leasing of 80% of the housing in the United
	States. Passed by the Senate and submitted by the House to 
	Johnson in the aftermath of the King assassination, the bill 
	also protects civil rights workers and makes it a federal 
	crime to cross state lines for the purpose of inciting a 
	riot.

1972 - Benjamin L. Hooks, a Memphis lawyer and Baptist minister, 
	becomes the first African American to be named to the 
	Federal Communications Commission.

1979 - Idi Amin is deposed as president of Uganda. A combined force 
	of Tanzanian and Ugandan soldiers overthrew the dictator.  
	Amin, who attained power in 1971 after a coup against 
	socialist-leaning President Milton Obote, oversaw the 
	killing of at least 100,000 people. It is believed that Idi 
	Amin left Uganda to live in Saudi Arabia.

1988 - Willie D. Burton becomes the first African American to win 
	the Oscar for sound when he receives the award for the movie
	"Bird."

1997 - The Museum of African American History opens in Detroit. It 
	will become the largest of its kind in the world.

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