* Today in Black History - February 26 *
1844 - James Edward O'Hara is born in New York City to an Irish
merchant and a West Indian woman. He will move to North
Carolina after completing his basic education. After studying
law at Howard University, he will be admitted to the North
Carolina bar and become a practicing attorney in Halifax
county and active in state politics. He will later become a
two-term United States Congressman from North Carolina, serving
in the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congress.
1870 - Wyatt Outlaw, Town Commissioner in Graham, North Carolina, joins
the ancestors after being executed (lynched) by the "White
Brotherhood," The Ku Klux Klan. He was president of the Alamance
County Union League of America (an anti Ku Klux Klan group),
helped to establish the Republican party in North Carolina and
advocated establishing a school for African Americans. The Klan
will hang him from an oak tree near the Alamance County Courthouse.
Dozens of Klansmen will be arrested for the murders of Outlaw and
other African Americans in Alamance and Caswell Counties. Many of
the arrested men will confess, but, despite protests by Governor
William W. Holden, a federal judge in Salisbury will ordered them
released.
1926 - Dr. Carter G. Woodson starts Negro History Week. This week
will be expanded to Black History Month in 1976.
1926 - Theodore "Tiger"(The Georgia Deacon) Flowers becomes the first
African American middleweight champion of the world. He will
defeat Harry Greb in fifteen rounds to win the title in New York
City.
1928 - Antoine "Fats" Domino is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He
will be a pioneering Rhythm & Blues pianist whose hits will
include "Ain't That A Shame" and "Blueberry Hill."
1930 - "The Green Pastures" opens on Broadway at the Mansfield Theater
with Richard B. Harrison as "De Lawd."
1946 - A race riot in Columbia, Tennessee results in two deaths and ten
injured persons.
1964 - Boxer Cassius Clay converts to Islam, adopting the name Muhammad
Ali, saying, "I believe in the religion of Islam...believe in
Allah and peace..."
1965 - During civil rights demonstrations in Selma, Alabama, that were
designed to get the attention of the Johnson administration in
Washington, DC, police violence erupts against the marchers. In
an effort to protect his mother from a beating, 26 year old
Jimmie Lee Jackson strikes a police officer. He will join the
ancestors after being shot and killed. Civil rights activists,
outraged by his death, will plan a march from the Edmund Pettus
Bridge in Selma to Montgomery.
1966 - Andrew Brimmer becomes the first African American governor of the
Federal Reserve Board when he is appointed by President Lyndon
B. Johnson.
1984 - Rev. Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he referred to New York City
as "Hymietown."
1985 - At the 27th Grammy Awards, Best Album of the Year for "Can't Slow
Down", is presented to Lionel Richie. Tina Turner is a big
winner with Best Song, Best Record and Best Pop Vocal
Performance by a Female for "What's Love Got to Do with It."
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