* Today in Black History - January 7 *
1822 - A colony of free African Americans sent to Africa by the American
Colonization Society, is established on the west coast of Africa.
It is the beginning of the African-American colonization of Liberia.
This colony will become the independent nation of Liberia in 1847.
1868 - The Mississippi constitutional convention convenes in Jackson. It
is attended by seventeen African Americans and eighty-three whites.
1868 - The Arkansas constitutional convention convenes in Little Rock.
It is attended by eight African Americans and forty-three whites.
1890 - William B. Purvis is awarded patent #419,065 for the fountain pen.
1892 - A mine explosion kills 100 in Krebs, Oklahoma. African Americans
trying to help rescue white survivors, are driven away at
gunpoint.
1901 - Zora Neale Hurston, who will become a brilliant folklorist,
novelist, and short story writer, is born in Eatonville, Florida.
She will be one of the more influential writers of the Harlem
Renaissance, known for her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
and her folklore collections, including "Of Mules and Men."
1911 - Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen is born in Tampa, Florida. She will be
educated in Augusta, Georgia and Long Island, New York. After
graduation, she will study dance, joining the Venezuela Jones
Negro Youth Group. After performing in the "Butterfly Ballet"
(in a 1935 production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream") McQueen will
be dubbed---and forever referred to as---"Butterfly". She will
make her stage debut in George Abbot's "Brown Sugar", and soon
after, in 1939, she will appear as Lulu in "The Women" and in
her most famous role, Prissy in "Gone With The Wind."
1927 - The first touring Harlem Globetrotter game is played in Hinckley,
Illinois before a crowd of 300 people. It will be a success,
bringing in $75 in profit.
1950 - The James Weldon Johnson Collection officially opens at Yale
University. Established in 1941 through a gift by Grace Nail
Johnson, widow of the famed author, diplomat, and the famed
author, diplomat, and NAACP official, the collection will
eventually include the papers of Johnson, Langston Hughes,
W.E.B. Dubois, Richard Wright, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston,
and many other writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
1955 - Marian Anderson appears as Ulrica in Verdi's "Un Ballo in
Maschera" with the New York Metropolitan Opera. In her debut
performance at the Met, Anderson becomes the first African
American ever to sing with the company.
1964 - The Bahamas achieve internal self-government & cabinet level
responsibility.
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