* Today in Black History - January 2 *
1800 - Members of the Free Black Commission of Philadelphia petitions
Congress to abolish slavery.
1831 - The "Liberator" is published for the first time. An abolitionist
newspaper, it is started by William Lloyd Garrison.
1837 - The first National Negro Congress is held in Washington, DC.
1872 - The Mississippi legislature meets and elects John R. Lynch as the
Speaker of the House, at the age of twenty-four.
1898 - Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander is born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. She will become the first African American to
earn a Ph.D. in economics.
1903 - President Theodore Roosevelt shuts down the U.S. Post Office in
Indianola, Mississippi, for refusing to accept its appointed
postmistress because she is an African American.
1915 - John Hope Franklin is born in Rentlesville, Oklahoma. He will
become a scholar and historian most famous for his book "From
Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans," which will
sell over two million copies.
1947 - Calvin Hill is born. He will become a professional football
player with the Dallas Cowboys (running back) and will play in
Super Bowl V and VI.
1957 - Sugar Ray Robinson is defeated by Gene Fullmer for the world
middleweight boxing title.
1963 - Bobby "Blue" Bland's "That's The Way Love Is" is released by
Duke Records.
1965 - The Selma, Alabama voter registration drive begins, led by the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a major effort to get
African American voters registered to vote in Alabama.
1970 - Clifton Reginald Wharton, Jr. becomes the first African American
president of Michigan State University and the first African
American president of a major American university in the twentieth
century.
1970 - Dr. Benjamin E. Mays is named the first African American president
of the Atlanta, Georgia Board of Education.
1977 - Erroll Garner, pianist and composer, dies in Los Angeles,
California. He was considered the best-selling jazz pianist in
the world, most famous for the jazz standard "Misty."
1977 - Ellis Wilson, the artist, dies. An artist known for his striking
paintings of African Americans, his work had been exhibited at
the New York World's Fair of 1939, the Harmon Foundation, and the
Detroit Institute of Arts. Among his best-known works are
"Funeral Procession," "Field Workers," and "To Market."
1980 - Larry Williams, singer ("Bony Maronie"), found dead with a
gunshot wound to the head at 45 years of age.
1981 - David Lynch, singer with The Platters, dies at the age of 76.
1984 - W. Wilson Goode, the son of a sharecropper, is sworn in as the
first African American mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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