*                   Today in Black History - October 6              *

1776 - Henri Christophe is born a slave in Grenada.  He will become a
        Haitian revolutionist and ruler and also become provisional chief
        of northern Haiti. He will establish himself as King Henri I in
        the north and build Citadelle Laferriere.

1847 - National Black convention meets in Troy, New York, with more than
        sixty delegates from nine states.  Nathan Johnson of Massachusetts
        is elected president.

1868 - An African American state convention at Macon, Georgia, protests
        expulsion of African American politicians from the Georgia
        legislature.

1871 - The Fisk Jubilee Singers begin their tour to raise money for the
        school. Soon they will become one of the most popular African
        American folk-singing groups of the late 19th century, performing
        throughout the U.S. and Europe and raising large sums for Fisk's
        building program.

1917 - Fannie Lou Hamer is born near Ruleville, Mississippi.  She will
        become a leader of the civil rights movement during the 1960's
        and founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in
        Montgomery County, Mississippi.

1921 - Joseph Echols Lowery is born in Huntsville, Alabama.  An early
        civil rights activist, he will become a founder, chairman of
        the board, and president of the Southern Christian Leadership
        Conference.  He will lead SCLC to great levels of civil rights
        activism including a 2,700-mile pilgrimage to extend and
        strengthen the Voting Rights Act, protesting toxic waste sites
        in African American communities, and actions against United
        States' corporations doing business in apartheid South Africa.

1965 - Patricia Harris takes the post as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium,
        becoming the first African American U.S. ambassador.

1981 - Anwar Sadat, president of Egypt, is assassinated by extremists while
        reviewing a military parade.

1986 - Abram Hill joins the ancestors in New York City. He was the founder
        of the city's American Negro Theatre in 1940, where the careers of
        Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, and Sidney Poitier were launched. Hill's
        adaptation of the play "Anna Lucasta" premiered on Broadway in
        1944 and ran successfully for 900 performances.

1991 - Williams College's exhibit of African American photography -
        "Black Photographers Bear Witness: 100 Years of Social Protest"
        opens. The exhibit includes photography by C.M. Battey, James Van
        Der Zee, Marvin and Morgan Smith, Moneta Sleet, Carrie Mae Weems,
        and others.

1991 - Anita Hill, a former personal assistant to Supreme Court justice
        nominee Clarence Thomas, accuses Thomas of sexual harassment
        (from 1981-83) during his confirmation hearings.

1994 - South African President, Nelson Mandela, addresses a joint session
        of Congress.  He will warn against the lure of isolationism, saying
        the U.S. post-Cold War focus should be on eliminating "tyranny,
        instability and poverty" across the globe.

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