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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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