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1914 - William Ellisworth Artis is born in Washington, North Carolina.

            He will become one of the finest African American artists of 

            the twentieth century.  He will be educated at Syracuse 

            University and become a student of Augusta Savage. Artis's 

            sculptures will exhibit a strong originality and a romantic, 

            almost spiritual appeal. His works will be exhibited at Atlanta 

            University, the Whitney Museum, the "Two Centuries of Black 

            American Art" exhibit and collected by Fisk University, Hampton 

            University, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and private 

            collectors. 

 

1915 - Biologist Ernest E. Just receives the Spingarn Medal for his 

            pioneering research on fertilization and cell division. 

 

1938 - Operatic baritone, Simon Estes is born in Centerville, Iowa. 

            He will be noted for his leading roles in Wagnerian operas and 

            will sing at the  opening of the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in 

            Munich, Germany. 

 

1948 - President Harry S. Truman sends a message to Congress pressing 

            for civil rights legislation,  including anti-lynching, fair 

            employment practices, and anti-poll tax provisions. 

 

1956 - Autherine J. Lucy becomes the first African American student

            to attend the University of Alabama. 

        

1956 - Seven whites and four African Americans are arrested after 

            an all-night civil rights sit-in at the Englewood, New Jersey 

            city hall.

 

1956 - Four African American mothers are arrested after a sit-in at 

            a Chicago elementary school.  The mothers later receive 

            suspended $50 fines.  Protests, picketing and demonstrations 

            continue for several weeks against de facto segregation, 

            double shifts and mobile classrooms.

 

1971 - Ugandan army strongman Major-General Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote

            and assumes full power as military head of state and forms an 

            18-man cabinet to run the country. Amin, a Muslim, strengthens

            ties with Arab nations and launches a genocidal program to 

            purge Uganda's Lango and Acholi ethnic groups.  He will order

            all Asians to leave the country, which will thrust Uganda into 

            economic chaos.  During Amin's regime, about 300,000 Ugandans 

            will be killed.

 

1984 - Ralph Sampson, one of the Houston Rockets 'Twin Towers', is 

            named Rookie of the Month in the National Basketball 

            Association.  To earn the honor, Sampson averages 24.4 points, 

            12 rebounds and 2.43 blocked shots per game during the month of 

            January.  In addition, Sampson will become the only rookie (up 

            to that time) to be named to the NBA's All-Star Game. 

 

1988 - A commemorative stamp of James Weldon Johnson is issued by the 

            United States Postal Service as part of its Black Heritage USA 

            series. 

 

1990 - In a dramatic concession to South Africa's black majority, 

            President F.W. de Klerk lifts a ban on the African National 

            Congress, and sixty other political organizations and promises 

            to free Nelson Mandela.


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