* Today in Black History - January 6 *
1773 - "Felix," a Boston slave, and others petition Massachusetts
Governor Hutchinson for their freedom. It is the first of a
record eight similar petitions filed during the Revolutionary
War.
1831 - The World Anti-Slavery Convention opens in London, England.
1832 - William Lloyd Garrison founds the New England Anti-Slavery
Society at the African Meeting House in Boston, Massachusetts,
where he issues the society's "Declaration of Sentiments" from
the Meeting House pulpit.
1882 - Thomas Boyne receives the Congressional Medal of Honor for
bravery in two New Mexico battles while a sergeant in Troop C,
9th U.S. Calvary.
1906 - Benedict Wallet Vilakazi is born in South Africa. He will become
a pre-apartheid Zulu poet, novelist, and educator.
1929 - Wilbert Harrison is born. He will become a singer and will be
best known for his recordings "Kansas City," and "Let's Work
Together."
1937 - Doris Troy is born. She will become a rhythm and blues singer best
known for her song "Just One Look."
1966 - Harold R. Perry becomes the second African American Roman Catholic
bishop since the U.S. was founded and the first in the 20th
century.
1971 - Cecil A. Partee is elected president pro tem of the Illinois State
Senate. He is the first African American to hold this position.
1984 - Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Robert N.C. Nix, Jr., is
inaugurated as Chief Justice. The Philadelphia native, former
deputy attorney general of the state, and thirteen-year veteran
of the Court, is the first African American to head a state
Supreme Court.
1989 - Elizabeth Koontz joins the ancestors at the age of 69. She was a
noted educator and the first African American president of the
National Education Association. She also had been director of
the Women's Bureau in the U.S. Department of Labor.
1993 - Jazz great, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, joins the ancestors in
Englewood, New Jersey at the age of 76. He had played actively
until early 1992.
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