*                Today in Black History - January 11                 *

1870 - The first reconstruction legislature meets in Jackson, Mississippi.
        Thirty one of the 106 representatives and five of the 33 senators
        are African American.

1892 - William D. McCoy, of Indiana, is appointed United States Minister
        to Liberia.

1902 - Acknowledging the increasing attention African American athletes
        receive, the Baltimore "Afro-American" states, "Mr. [Joe] Gans
        gets more space in the white papers than all the respectable
        colored people in the state."  Gans is the world lightweight
        boxing champion and first native African American world title
        holder.

1924 - James Moore is born in Lobdell, Louisiana (outside of Baton
        Rouge).  During the 1940's Moore will teach himself how to play
        the harmonica and begin working jukes, clubs, parties, and
        picnics in Louisiana.  Moore will work professionally with
        Lightnin' Slim and will be known as "Slim Harpo."  Harpo will be
        a big influence on British blues-rockers of the mid-Sixties.

1936 - Charles W. Anderson enters the Kentucky House of Representatives as
        its first elected African American member.  He will serve for six
        consecutive terms and will help to dismantle legal segregation in
        his state, when his bill allowing African American and white
        nurses to go to the same school is passed in 1948.

1947 - Evangelina Rodriguez joins the ancestors in San Pedro de Macoris,
        Dominican Republic.  She had been the first woman to graduate from
        medical school in the Dominican Republic, becoming the first woman
        physician to practice in that country.

1957 - Darryl Dawkins is born.  He will become one of only five players
        to enter the NBA right out of high school and survive.  He will
        go on to play for fourteen seasons as a center for the New
        Jersey Nets and Philadelphia 76'ers.

1960 - Chad declares its independence from France.

1961 - Racially motivated disturbance erupts on the University of Georgia
        campus as a result of civil rights demonstrations by African
        American students. African American students Charlayne Hunter and
        Hamilton Holmes are suspended but will be reinstated by a federal
        court order. Hunter-Gault will become an Emmy award-winning
        journalist with "The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour."

1962 - Nelson Mandela leaves South Africa, traveling to Ethiopia,
        Algeria, and England to speak out against apartheid in South
        Africa.

1985 - Reuben V. Anderson is appointed as judge on the Mississippi
        Supreme Court.  Anderson is the first African American named to
        the court.

1986 - L. Douglas Wilder, of Virginia, is sworn in as the first African
        American Lt. Governor since reconstruction.

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