* Today in Black History - March 16 *
1827 - With the assistance of James Varick, Richard Allen, Alexander
Crummel, and others, Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm
publish "Freedom's Journal" in New York City. Operating from
space in Varick's Zion Church, "Freedom's Journal" is the first
African American newspaper. Russwurm says of the establishment
of the newspaper, "We wish to plead our own cause. Too long
have others spoken for us."
1870 - Senator Hiram R. Revels argues against Georgia's re-admission to
the Union without safeguards for African American citizens. It
is the first official speech by an African American before
Congress.
1956 - Ozzie Newsome is born in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He will become
a stand-out football player for the University of Alabama, and
the first African American star athlete for a major school in
the south. Newsome will be drafted by the Cleveland Browns
and start 176 out of 182 games in 13 years. He will be the
all-time leading receiver in Cleveland history and the all-
time receiver among tight ends in the NFL. Newsome will be
fourth among receivers in NFL history with a record of 662
catches. He will earn three trips to the Pro Bowl and will
be named to the All-NFL Teams of the '80's. Newsome will
remain with the Cleveland Browns in an administrative
position after his retirement. In 1994 he will be inducted
into the College Football Hall of Fame and in 1999 to the Pro
Football Hall of Fame.
1956 - Former heavyweight champion Joe Louis, makes his debut as a pro
wrestler. He knocks out 320-pound cowboy Rocky Lee. Jersey Joe
Walcott, the referee, is another former heavyweight champ.
1960 - San Antonio, Texas becomes the first major southern city to
integrate lunch counters.
1966 - Rodney Peete is born in Mesa, Arizona. He will become a NFL
quarterback playing for the Detroit Lions and Philadelphia
Eagles and later, the Washington Redskins.
1970 - Tammi Terrell (Tammy Montgomery), best known for her duets with
Marvin Gaye, joins the ancestors at Graduate Hospital in
Philadelphia after undergoing six brain tumor operations in 18
months. Doctors first discovered Terrell's brain tumor after
she collapsed in Gaye's arms onstage in 1967.
1975 - Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker, jazz and blues singer, blues
guitarist, composer and pianist, joins the ancestors at the age
of 64. He was best known for his hits "Stormy Monday" and
"T-Bone Shuffle."
1988 - President Ronald Reagan vetoes a civil rights bill that would
restore protections invalidated by the U.S. Supreme Court's
1984 ruling in Grove City College v. Bell. Reagan's veto will
be overridden by Congress less than a week later.
1989 - The U.S. Senate agrees to try U.S. District Court Judge Alcee
Hastings on fraud, corruption, and perjury charges stemming
from a 1981 bribery conspiracy case. Hastings, appointed by
President Jimmy Carter as the first African American judge to
serve on the federal bench in Florida, will be convicted of
eight of the original articles and impeached in October.
1991 - Soon Ja Du, a Korean American grocery store owner, shoots to
death Latasha Harlins, a fifteen-year old African American
girl, after Ms. Du accused the girl of trying to steal a $1.79
bottle of orange juice. A security camera in the store captures
the shooting on videotape. The shooting exacerbates racial and
ethnic tensions in Los Angeles in the wake of the Rodney King
beating.
1995 - Mississippi ratifies the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, some
130 years after the rest of the country got around to it.
1996 - Mike Tyson regains a piece of the heavyweight championship by
defeating WBC champion Frank Bruno by TKO in the third round to
reclaim the heavyweight boxing title in Las Vegas.
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