*               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, is
        executed (lynched) by the "White Brotherhood."  His death will
        be used as a case study in a research project, "Killing Wyatt
        Outlaw: Understanding Political Violence in the Reconstruction
        South."

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 be 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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