*                Today in Black History - January 19                 *

1918 - John H. Johnson is born in Arkansas City, Mississippi.  He will
        become the founder and president of Johnson Publishing Company,
        Inc., the most prosperous African American publishing company in
        America.  His company will publish "Negro Digest"(his first),
        "Ebony," "Jet," "Black Star," "Black World" and "Ebony Jr."
        magazines. He will receive numerous awards, including the Horatio
        Alger Award, the NAACP Spingarn Medal and the National Newspaper
        Publishers Association's Henry Johnson Fisher Award for
        outstanding contributions to publishing.

1952 - The PGA Tournament Committee votes to allow African American
        golfers to compete in sanctioned golf tournaments.

1959 - In a letter to her mother shortly before the opening of her first
        play, "A Raisin in the Sun," Lorraine Hansberry says "Mama, it
        is a play that tells the truth about people Negroes and life and I
        think it will help a lot of people to understand how we are just
        as complicated as they are-- and just as mixed up--but above all,
        that we have among our miserable and downtrodden ranks--people
        who are the very essence of human dignity.  That is what, after
        all the laughter and tears, the play is supposed to say."

1970 - The California state board of regents fires Angela Davis from her
        teaching position at the University of California at Los Angeles
        for being a communist.  This will be done at the urging of then
        Governor Ronald Reagan.  Her dismissal will be overturned later
        by the courts, but the board of regents will refuse to renew her
        contract at the end of the 1969-1970 academic year.

1983 - In its "State of Black America" annual report, the National Urban
        League warns that the recession had disproportionately hurt
        African Americans: "A major question facing the nation in 1983
        is whether the inevitable restructuring of the American economy
        will include Black people."

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