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1868 - Republican conservatives draft new constitution which concentrates
political power in the hands of the governor and limits the impact
of the Black vote. This is made possible by Conservatives, aided
by military forces, who seize the convention hall and establish
control over the reconstruction process in Florida.
1927 - Mary Leontyne Violet Price, who will be acclaimed as one of the
world's greatest operatic talents, is born in Laurel,
Mississippi. She will amass many operatic firsts, being the
first African American to sing opera on network television and
the first African American to receive the Presidential Medal
of Freedom. Among her honors will be the NAACP's Spingarn
Medal, three Emmys, and Kennedy Center Honors.
1939 - Roberta Flack is born in Black Mountain (Asheville), North Carolina.
She will begin her professional singing career in Washington, DC.
She will go on to win Grammys for "The First Time Ever I Saw
Your Face," "Where Is the Love," and "Killing Me Softly with
His Song."
1942 - Mary Lovelace O'Neal is born in Jackson, Mississippi. Educated
at Howard and Columbia universities, she will become a professor
of fine arts and a painter who will exhibit her work in museums
in the United States, Morocco, and Chile.
1943 - Eta Phi Beta, the national business and professional sorority,
is incorporated in Detroit, Michigan. It will have chapters
throughout the United States and number among its members civil
rights activist Daisy Bates and artist Margaret T. Burroughs.
1945 - The United States, Russia, Great Britain, and France approve a
peace treaty with Italy, under which Italy renounces all rights
and claims to Ethiopia and Eritrea.
1945 - The Chicago Defender reports that over a quarter of a million
African Americans migrated to California during the years 1942
and 1943. As the percentage of African Americans in California
increases from 1 1/2% to more than 10% of the total population,
so does the practice of racial segregation.
1971 - Bill White becomes the first African American major league
baseball announcer when he begins announcing for the New York
Yankees.
1989 - Ronald H. Brown, who had served as Jesse Jackson's campaign
manager, becomes chairman of the Democratic National Committee,
the first African American to hold the position in either party.
1990 - South African President, Frederik Willem de Klerk announces that
Nelson Mandela will be set free on February 11th after 27 years
in prison.
1992 - Alex Haley, author of "Roots," and "Autobiography of Malcolm X,"
joins the ancestors while on a lecture tour in Seattle, Washington
at the age of 70.
1992 - Mike Tyson is convicted in Indianapolis, Indiana of raping a
contestant in the Miss Black America competition and sentenced to
six years in an Indiana prison.
1998 - Dr. David Satcher is confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become
Surgeon General.
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