* Today in Black History - January 8 *
1811 - A slave rebellion begins 35 miles outside of New Orleans,
Louisiana. U.S. troops will be called upon to put down the
uprising of over 400 slaves, which will last three days.
1837 - Fanny M. Jackson is born a slave in Washington, DC. She will
become the first African American woman college graduate in
the United States when she graduates from Oberlin College in
1865. After graduation, she will become a teacher at the
Institute for Colored Youths in Philadelphia. In 1869, she
will become the first African American woman to head an
institution of higher learning when she is made Principal of
the Institute. In the fall of 1881, Fanny will marry the Rev.
Levi Jenkins Coppin, a minister of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church. The marriage will open a wealth of
missionary opportunities for Fanny. When her husband is made
Bishop of Cape Town, South Africa, Fanny will accompany him
and travel thousands of miles organizing mission societies.
She will join the ancestors on January 21, 1913 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1926, a facility for teacher
training in Baltimore, Maryland will be named Fanny Jackson
Coppin Normal School in her honor. The school is known today
as Coppin State University.
1867 - Overriding President Andrew Johnson's veto, Congress passes
legislation giving African Americans in the District of
Columbia the right to the vote.
1912 - Chiefs, representatives of people's and church organisations, and
other prominent individuals form the African National Congress
in South Africa and declare its aim to bring all Africans together
as one people to defend their rights and freedoms.
1922 - Colonel Charles Young joins the ancestors in Lagos, Nigeria
at the age of 58. He was one of the first African American
graduates of West Point, the first to achieve the rank of
colonel in the U.S. Army, and the second winner of the
NAACP's Spingarn Medal (1916).
1937 - Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey is born in Tiger Bay, Cardiff,
Wales, United Kingdom. She will become a professional singer
and is best known for her rendition of the James Bond themes:
"Goldfinger," "Diamond's Are Forever," and "Moonraker." With
thirty-one hits in the United Kingdom Singles Chart, which
span a record forty two year period for a female vocalist,
plus thirty five hit LPs in the corresponding UK Albums Chart,
she will become Britain's most successful female chart artist
of all time. In recognition of her career longevity, endurance
and a particular admiration from the Royal Family, she will be
created a Dame Commander of the British Empire (the female
equivalent of a Knight Commander) on December 31, 1999 by Her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. She will also be awarded France's
top honor, the Legion d'Honneur, to signify her enduring
popularity and importance in the culture of France.
1975 - The state-owned Alabama Educational Television Commission has
its application for license renewal denied by the Federal
Communications Commission because of racial discrimination
against African Americans in employment and programming.
1993 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls, scores his 20,000th
career point.
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