* Today in Black History - March 2 *
1807 - Congress bans the slave trade, prohibiting "the importation of
slaves into the United States or the territories thereof" after
January 1, 1808.
1867 - Howard University is chartered by Congress in Washington, DC.
Also founded or chartered are Talladega College, Morgan State
University, Johnson C. Smith College, and St. Augustine's
College.
The first of a succession of Reconstruction acts is passed by
Congress. The acts divide the former Confederate states into
five military districts under the command of army generals.
African Americans vote in municipal election in Alexandria,
Virginia, for perhaps the first time in the South. The election
commissioners refuse to count the fourteen hundred votes and
military officials suspend local elections pending clarification
of the status of the freedmen.
Elections are ordered for constitutional conventions and
freedmen are enfranchised. Commanders in some states change
the status of African Americans by military orders. In March,
Major General E.R.S. Canby opens the jury box to African
Americans. African Americans are named policemen in Mobile,
Alabama.
1885 - George W. Williams, minister, lawyer and historian, is named
minister to Haiti. The appointment is vacated by the new
administration.
1896 - Battle of Aduwa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) defeats invading Italians.
1919 - Claude A. Barnett establishes the Associated Negro Press (ANP),
the first national news service for African American newspapers.
The goal of the ANP is to provide national news releases to
African American publishers. The ANP will operate for the next
48 years and have, at one time, 95% of all African American
newspapers as subscribers.
1921 - Harry Pace establishes Pace Phonograph Corporation to produce
records on the Black Swan label. It is the first African
American owned and operated record company and will record
blues, jazz, spirituals, and operatic arias.
1961 - 180 African American students and a white minister arrested in
Columbia, South Carolina after anti-segregation march.
1962 - Philadelphia 76er Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in an NBA
game against the New York Knicks. It is a feat Chamberlain will
repeat but one which has not been equaled by another NBA player.
1980 - Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns wins the vacant USBA Welterweight title.
This is one of five weight classes in which he has won a boxing
title, making him the first African American to win boxing
titles in five different weight classes.
1986 - Sidney Barthelemy is elected mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana,
succeeding Ernest Morial as the second African American mayor
of the city.
1988 - J. Saunders Redding, author, dies in Ithaca, New York at the age
of 81.
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The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
"InfoBeat," "I, Too, Sing America - The African American
Book of Days," and independent research by the
Information Man.
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