*                 Today in Black History - January 6                 *

1773 - "Felix," a Boston slave, and others petition Massachusetts
        Governor Hutchinson for their freedom.  It is the first of a
        record eight similar petitions filed during the Revolutionary
        War.

1831 - The World Anti-Slavery Convention opens in London, England.

1832 - William Lloyd Garrison founds the New England Anti-Slavery
        Society at the African Meeting House in Boston, Massachusetts,
        where he issues the society's "Declaration of Sentiments" from
        the Meeting House pulpit.

1882 - Thomas Boyne receives the Congressional Medal of Honor for
        bravery in two New Mexico battles while a sergeant in Troop C,
        9th U.S. Calvary.

1906 - Benedict Wallet Vilakazi is born in South Africa.  He will become
        a pre-apartheid Zulu poet, novelist, and educator.

1929 - Wilbert Harrison is born.  He will become a singer and will be
        best known for his recordings "Kansas City," and "Let's Work
        Together."

1937 - Doris Troy is born.  She will become a rhythm and blues singer best
        known for her song "Just One Look."

1966 - Harold R. Perry becomes the second African American Roman Catholic
        bishop since the U.S. was founded and the first in the 20th
        century.

1971 - Cecil A. Partee is elected president pro tem of the Illinois State
        Senate.  He is the first African American to hold this position.

1984 - Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Robert N.C. Nix, Jr., is
        inaugurated as Chief Justice.  The Philadelphia native, former
        deputy attorney general of the state, and thirteen-year veteran
        of the Court, is the first African American to head a state
        Supreme Court.

1989 - Elizabeth Koontz joins the ancestors at the age of 69.  She was a
        noted educator and the first African American president of the
        National Education Association.  She also had been director of
        the Women's Bureau in the U.S. Department of Labor.

1993 - Jazz great, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, joins the ancestors in
        Englewood, New Jersey at the age of 76.  He had played actively
        until early 1992.

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