*                  Today in Black History - January 8                *

1811 - A slave rebellion begins 35 miles outside of New Orleans,
        Louisiana.  U.S. troops will be called upon to put down the
        uprising of over 400 slaves, which will last three days.

1837 - Fanny M. Jackson is born a slave in Washington, DC.  She will
        become the first African American woman college graduate in the
        United States when she graduates from Oberlin College in 1865.
        After graduation, she will become a teacher at the Institute for
        Colored Youths in Philadelphia.  In 1869, she will become the
        first African American woman to head an institution of higher
        learning when she is made Principal of the Institute.  In the
        fall of 1881, Fanny will marry the Rev. Levi Jenkins Coppin, a
        minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The marriage
        will open a wealth of missionary opportunities for Fanny. When
        her husband is made Bishop of Cape Town, South Africa, Fanny
        will accompany him and travel thousands of miles organizing
        mission societies.  In 1926, a facility for teacher training in
        Baltimore, Maryland will be named Fanny Jackson Coppin Normal
        School in her honor.  The school is known today as Coppin State
        College.

1867 - Overriding President Andrew Johnson's veto, Congress passes
        legislation giving African Americans in the District of Columbia
        the right to the vote.

1912 - The African National Congress, in South Africa, is formed.

1922 - Colonel Charles Young dies in Lagos, Nigeria at the age of 58.
        He was one of the first African American graduates of West
        Point, the first to achieve the rank of colonel in the U.S.
        Army, and the second winner of the NAACP's Spingarn Medal
        (1916).

1937 - Shirley Bassey is born in Wales.  She will become a professional
        singer and is best known for her rendition of the James Bond
        themes: "Goldfinger," and "Diamond's Are Forever."

1975 - The state-owned Alabama Educational Television Commission has its
        application for license renewal denied by the Federal
        Communications Commission because of racial discrimination
        against African Americans in employment and programming.

1993 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls, scores his 20,000th career
        point.

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