*                Today in Black History - January 15                 *

1865 - An African American division, under the command of Major General
        Charles Paine, participates in the Fort Fisher, North Carolina
        expedition, which will close the Confederacy's last major
        seaport.

1908 - Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority is founded at Howard University in
        Washington, DC.  The culmination of efforts by Ethel Hedgeman
        (Lyle) and eight other undergraduates, it is the first Greek-
        letter organization for African American women.

1929 - Michael Luther King is born in Atlanta, Georgia.  His father will
        have both of their names changed to Martin Luther King, Sr.
        and Jr.  Martin Luther King, Jr. will become a Baptist minister,
        world-renowned civil rights leader, and an advocate of
        non-violence.  His efforts, beginning with the Montgomery bus
        boycott in 1955 and continuing for the next 13 years, will
        fundamentally change civil rights for African Americans and earn
        him a number of honors and awards, including the Nobel Peace
        Prize (1964), Medal of Freedom, and the NAACP's Spingarn Medal
        (1957). He will join the ancestors on April 4, 1968 after being
        assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

1941 - Yancey Williams, a Howard University student, asked a federal
        court to order the Secretary of War and other government
        officials to consider his application for enlistment in the Army
        Air Corps as a flying cadet.

1950 - More than 4,000 delegates from one hundred national organizations
        attend the National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in
        Washington, DC.

1968 - Reporting the results of a "Jet" magazine poll, "The New York
        Times" article "Negro History Week Stirs Up Semantic Debate"
        indicates that 59% of those polled prefer the term Afro-American
        or Black to Negro.

1970 - Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, the nearby crypt containing
        the remains of Martin Luther King, Jr., and his boyhood home are
        dedicated as part of a memorial to be known as the Martin Luther
        King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Change.

1970 - Biafra officially surrenders to the Nigerian government and is
        reintegrated into Nigeria. Odumegwu Ojukwu had declared the
        independence of the eastern province of Biafra in 1967 to
        guarantee the survival of Igbos, Biafra's ethnic majority group.
        During the war with Nigeria, as many as 400,000 Biafrans died of
        starvation.

1990 - George Foreman knocks out Gerry Cooney in 2 rounds, at the age of
        forty two.

1998 - The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) National
        President Joseph E. Lowery, steps down from his post and Martin
        Luther King, III is named the new president, the actual birthday
        of SCLC  Founding President, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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