* Today in Black History - January 30 *
1797 - Boston Masons, led by Prince Hall, establish the first African
American interstate organization, creating lodges in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Providence, Rhode Island.
1797 - Sojourner Truth is born a slave in Hurley, New York. This is
an approximation, since historians cannot agree on the actual
date of her birth.
1797 - Congress refuses to accept the first recorded petitions from
African Americans.
1844 - Richard Theodore Greener becomes the first African American to
graduate from Harvard University.
1858 - William Wells Brown publishes the first drama by an African
American, "Leap to Freedom," Brown is an escaped slave who will
also become noted as an abolitionist and author of several
early historical publications.
1927 - The Harlem Globetrotters, considered by many the most popular
basketball team in the world, is formed by Abe Saperstein.
Originally called the Savoy Five after their home court, the
Savoy Ballroom, in Chicago, Illinois, the team's name will be
changed to the Harlem Globetrotters.
1928 - Ruth Brown is born in Portsmouth, Virginia. She will become a
Rhythm & Blues and jazz singer, recording "So Long," "Teardrops
from My Eyes," "Hours," "Mambo Baby," "Lucky Lips," and "This
Little Girl's Gone Rockin'." She will be a Tony Award winner
and a rhythm-and-blues revolutionary--a woman whose early
successes earned her instant worldwide fame and launched a
career that has influenced such legendary performers as Aretha
Franklin, Dinah Washington, Little Richard and Stevie Wonder.
1944 - Sharon Pratt is born in Washington, DC. In 1990, as Sharon Pratt
Dixon, she will be elected the first woman mayor of Washington,
DC. Her defeat of incumbent Marion Barry coupled with her
years of community involvement and activism will raise the
beleaguered city's hopes for positive change.
1945 - Floyd Flake is born in Los Angeles, California. He will become a
congressman from New York's 6th District.
1956 - The home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Montgomery bus boycott
leader, is bombed.
1962 - The United Nations General Assembly censures Portugal for its
widespread violations of human rights in Angola.
1965 - Leroy "Satchel" Paige, major league baseball player, is named
all-time outstanding player by the National Baseball Congress.
1979 - Franklin A. Thomas becomes the first African American to head a
major U.S. charitable foundation when he is named president of
the Ford Foundation.
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