*              Today in Black History - October 16               *

1849 - George Washington Williams is born in Bedford Springs,
        Pennysylvania.  He will become the first major African American
        historian and founder of two African American newspapers, "The
        Commoner" in Washington, DC, and Cincinnati's "The Southern
        Review."

1849 - Charles L. Reason is named professor of belles-lettres and
        French at Central College in McGrawville, New York.  William G.
        Allen and George B. Vashon also will teach at the predominantly
        white college.

1855 - More than one hundred delegates from six states hold a Black
        convention in Philadelphia.  John Mercer Langston, one of the
        first African Americans to win public office, is elected
        clerk of Brownhelm Township, Lorain County, Ohio.

1859 - Osborne Perry Anderson, a free man, is one of five African
        Americans in John Brown's raid on the United States Arsenal
        at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.

1872 - South Carolina Republicans carry the election with a ticket of
        four whites and four Blacks: Richard H. Gleaves, lieutenant
        governor; Henry E. Hayne, secretary of state; Francis L.
        Cardozo, treasurer; and Henry W. Purvis, adjutant general.
        African Americans win 97 of the 158 seats in the General
        Assembly and four of the five congressional districts.

1876 - Race riot occurs in Cainhoy, South Carolina.  Five whites and
        one African American are killed.

1895 - The National Medical Association is founded in Atlanta,
        Georgia.

1901 - Booker T. Washington dines at the White House with President
        Theodore Roosevelt and is criticized in the South.

1932 - Chi Eta Phi sorority is founded in Washington, DC.  Aliene
        Carrington Ewell and 11 other women establish the nursing
        society, which will grow to 72 chapters in 22 states, the
        District of Columbia, and Liberia and will eventually admit
        both men and women.

1962 - Manute Bol, NBA center (Golden State Warriors), is born.

1968 - Tommie Smith and John Carlos hold up their fists in a Black
        Power salute during the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City,
        Mexico. Their actions will come to symbolize the Black Power
        movement in sports and will result in their suspension from
        the games two days later.

1973 - Maynard Jackson becomes the first African American mayor of a
        major southern city when he was elected mayor of Atlanta,
        Georgia.  Jackson, at the age of 35, becomes one of the
        youngest mayors to ever be elected.

1984 - Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa is awarded the
        Nobel Peace Prize for his role as a unifying figure in the
        campaign to resolve the problems of apartheid in South Africa.

1990 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at
        the age of 71.

1995 - Minister Louis Farrakhan of The Nation of Islam speaks at The
        Million Man March in Washington, D.C., which he called for,
        and organized.  It is known as the "Day of Atonement."

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