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* Today in Black History - April 11 *
1865 - President Lincoln recommends suffrage for African American
veterans and African Americans who are "very intelligent."
1881 - Spelman College is founded with $100 and eleven former
slaves determined to learn to read and write. It is opened
as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary. The two female
founders, Sophia B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles are
appalled by the lack of educational opportunities for
African American women at the time. They will return to
Boston determined to get support to change that and earned
what will prove to be the lifelong support of John D.
Rockefeller, who considers Spelman to be one of his
family's finest investments. The name Spelman is adopted
later in honor of Mrs. Rockefeller's parents.
1933 - Tony Brown is born in Charleston, West Virginia. He will
become well known as executive producer, host, and
moderator of the Emmy-winning television series "Black
Journal." In 1971 he will establish and become the first dean
of Howard University's School of Communications, a post he
will hold until 1974.
1955 - Roy Wilkins is elected the NAACP's executive secretary
following the ancestral ascension of Walter White.
1956 - Singer Nat "King" Cole is attacked on the stage of a
Birmingham theater by white supremacists.
1966 - Emmett Ashford becomes the first African American major
league umpire, working in the American League. He had been
the first African American professional umpire in the minor
leagues in 1951.
1967 - Harlem voters defy Congress and re-elect Congressman Adam
Clayton Powell Jr. after he had been expelled by the
legislative body.
1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs what will become known as
the 1968 Housing Act, which outlaws discrimination in the
sale, rental, or leasing of 80% of the housing in the United
States. Passed by the Senate and submitted by the House to
Johnson in the aftermath of the King assassination, the bill
also protects civil rights workers and makes it a federal
crime to cross state lines for the purpose of inciting a
riot.
1972 - Benjamin L. Hooks, a Memphis lawyer and Baptist minister,
becomes the first African American to be named to the
Federal Communications Commission.
1979 - Idi Amin is deposed as president of Uganda. A combined force
of Tanzanian and Ugandan soldiers overthrew the dictator.
Amin, who attained power in 1971 after a coup against
socialist-leaning President Milton Obote, oversaw the
killing of at least 100,000 people. It is believed that Idi
Amin left Uganda to live in Saudi Arabia.
1988 - Willie D. Burton becomes the first African American to win
the Oscar for sound when he receives the award for the movie
"Bird."
1997 - The Museum of African American History opens in Detroit. It
will become the largest of its kind in the world.
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