* Today in Black History - January 29 *
1837 - Aleksandr Sereyevich Pushkin, a Russian of African ancestry who
is considered the "Shakespeare of Russian Literature," joins
the ancestors after being killed in a duel. Technically one-
eighth African or an octoroon, Pushkin was by all accounts
Negroid in his appearance. His verse novel "Eugene Onegin" and
other works are considered classics of Russian literature and
inspiration for later great Russian writers such as Gogol,
Dostoyevski, and Tolstoy.
1850 - Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery
which included the admission of California into the Union as
a free state.
1872 - Francis L. Cardoza is elected State Treasurer of South Carolina.
1908 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, founded at Cornell University in
1906, is incorporated in the state of New York.
1913 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, founded at Howard University in
1908, is incorporated in Washington, DC.
1913 - African Americans celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the
Emancipation Proclamation. Major celebrations are held in
Jackson, Mississippi, New Orleans, Louisiana and Nashville,
Tennessee. Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey appropriate
money for official celebrations of the event.
1926 - Violette Neatley Anderson is the first African American woman
admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
1954 - Oprah Winfrey is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi. She will
become the first African American woman to host a nationally
syndicated talk show and will be nominated for an Academy award
for best supporting actress in 1985 for her role in "The Color
Purple." Following in the footsteps of Oscar Micheaux and
others, she will also form her own film and television
production company, Harpo Studios, in Chicago, Illinois. In
1988, Harpo Studios will take over ownership and production of
the "Oprah Winfrey Show," making her the first African American
woman to own and produce her own national talk show.
1966 - Charles Mahoney, the first African American delegate to the
United Nations, joins the ancestors.
1981 - William R. "Cozy" Cole joins the ancestors in Columbus, Ohio. A
jazz drummer who played with Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong,
he was known as a versatile percussionist who played in big
bands, comedy jazz groups, and Broadway musicals. In 1958, his
recording of "Topsy" became the only drum solo to sell more than
one million records.
1999 - Ronnie Lott, formally of the San Francisco 49'ers, is elected to
the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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