*             Today in Black History - October 19               *

1859 - Co-founder of Virginia State College, Byrd Prillerman, is born.

1870 - The first African Americans are elected to the House of
        Representatives.  African American Republicans won three of
        the four congressional seats in South Carolina: Joseph H.
        Rainey, Robert C. Delarge and Robert B. Elliott.  Rainey was
        elected to an unexpired term in the Forty-first Congress and
        was the first African American seated in the House.

1920 - LaWanda Page, actress (Aunt Esther-Sanford & Sons), is born in
        Cleveland, Ohio.

1924 - "From Dixie to Broadway" premieres at the Broadhurst Theatre
        in New York City. The music is written by Will Vodery, an
        African American, who arranged music for the Ziegfeld Follies
        for 23 years.

1936 - Johnnetta Betsch (later Cole) is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
        She will have a distinguished career as an educator and
        administrator and will become the first African American woman
        to head Spelman College.

1944 - Peter Tosh is born in Westmoreland, Jamaica.  He will become
        a founding father of reggae music.

1944 - The Navy announces that African American women could join
        Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).

1946 - The first exhibition of the work of Josef Nassy, an American
        citizen of Dutch-African descent, is held in Brussels.  The
        exhibit consists of 90 paintings and drawings Nassy created
        while in a Nazi-controlled internment camp during World War
        II.

1960 - Jennifer Holiday, singer/actress (Dream Girls), is born.

1960 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested in an Atlanta, Georgia
        sit-in demonstration.

1962 - Evander Holyfield, boxer and world heavyweight champion, is
        born.

1981 - The Martin Luther King, Jr. Library and Archives opens in
        Atlanta, Georgia.  Founded by Coretta Scott King, the facility
        is the largest repository in the world of primary resource
        material on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., nine major civil
        rights organizations, and the American civil rights movement.

1983 - Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop is assassinated after
        refusing to share leadership of the New Jewel Movement with
        his deputy, Bernard Coard.  This event will indirectly lead
        to the invasion of Grenada by the United States and six
        Caribbean nations.

1983 - The U.S. Senate establishes the Martin Luther King, Jr. federal
        holiday on the third Monday in January.

1988 - South African anti-apartheid leader, Sisulu wins $100,000 Human
        Rights prize.

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