*                 Today in Black History - January 10                *

1768 - James Varick is born in Orange County, New York.  Racism in New
        York City will lead Varick, a licensed clergyman, and 30 other
        African Americans to leave the famous and predominantly white
        John Street Methodist Episcopal Church and establish the first
        African American church in New York City.  He will later become
        the founder and first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal
        Zion Church.

1811 - African Americans in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania hold meetings at
        Bethel Church to protest The American Colonization Society's
        campaign "to exile us from the land of our nativity."

1811 - Slaves in Louisiana rebel in two parishes about thirty-five
        miles from New Orleans.  The revolt is suppressed by U.S.
        troops.

1870 - The legislature in the state of Georgia reconvenes and admits
        African American representatives and senators.

1889 - The Ivory Coast is declared a protectorate of France.

1925 - Drummer Max Roach is born in New Land, North Carolina.   He will
        become an influential figure in the development of modern jazz,
        playing with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Clifford Brown
        before forming his own groups in the 1950's.  He will achieve
        wide acclaim for his superb musical innovation.  He also will be
        an educator, teaching at Lennox, Massachusetts School of Jazz,
        Yale University, and Professor of Music at the University of
        Massachusetts (Amherst).

1938 - Willie McCovey is born.  He will become a professional baseball
        player in 1959.  In more than two decades later, Willie will end
        his career, and garner an impressive array of baseball's most
        coveted awards: Rookie of the Year in 1959; MVP in 1969; six
 times an All-Star and once the All-Star Game MVP; Comeback
        Player of the Year in 1977 and the National League's all-time
        left-handed home run hitter.

1949 - George Foreman is born in Marshall, Texas.  He will become a
        professional boxer and win the world heavyweight championship
        in 1973.  He will retire from boxing in 1977 after a defeat by
        Jimmy Young.   He will enter the ministry and stay away from
        boxing for ten years.  He will return to boxing in 1987 at the
        age of 37 and become the oldest heavyweight champion at age 45
        on November 5, 1994.

1966 - The Georgia House of Representatives refuses to seat African
        American legislator Julian Bond, SNCC communications director,
        because of his opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam
        War.  He will be seated almost one year later, after a legal
        battle that will eventually be resolved by the U.S. Supreme
        Court.

1967 - Edward Brooke, takes his seat as the first popularly elected
        African American United States Senator.

1976 - Chester Arthur Burnett, better known as "Howlin' Wolf," joins
        the ancestors in Hines, Illinois. He was a blues legend that
        helped to bring the Delta Blues music from Mississippi to
        Chicago during the 1950's. This music was the basis for the
        Chicago blues sound.

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