* Today in Black History - January 3 *
1621 - William Tucker is born in Jamestown, Virginia. He is the first
African American child, on record, born in the American
colonies.
1945 - The Albany Institute of History and Art in New York State opens
its exhibit "The Negro Artist Comes of Age: A National Survey of
Contemporary American Artists." The show includes works by
Aaron Douglas, William H. Johnson, Palmer Hayden, Eldzier
Cortor, Lois M. Jones, and others and will run for five weeks.
1947 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's
annual report calls 1946 "one of the grimmest years in the
history of the NAACP." The report details violence and
atrocities heaped on "Negro veterans freshly returned from a
war to end torture and racial extermination," and said "Negroes
in America have been disillusioned over the wave of lynchings,
brutality and official recession from all of the flamboyant
promises of post war democracy and decency."
1947 - William Dawson becomes the first African American to head a
congressional committee; Congressional proceedings are televised
for the first time as viewers in Washington, Philadelphia and
New York got to see some of the opening ceremonies of the 80th
Congress.
1956 - The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, established in 1870,
officially changes its name to the Christian Methodist Episcopal
Church. The denomination is headquartered today in Memphis,
Tennessee, and comprises a membership of nearly 500,000.
1961 - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. is elected Chairman of The House
Education and Labor Committee.
1966 - Floyd B. McKissick, a North Carolina attorney, is named national
director of The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
1969 - Louis Stokes is sworn in as the first African American
congressman from the state of Ohio. He will serve more that ten
terms in Congress and be distinguished by his leadership of the
1977 Select Committee on Assassinations and chairmanship of the
House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics
Committee).
1969 - Representative Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. is seated by Congress
after being expelled by Congress in 1967, and re-elected by the
voters in his Harlem district.
1983 - Tony Dorsett sets an NFL record with a 99-yd rush, in a game
between the Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota Vikings.
1984 - Syria frees captured U.S. pilot Robert Goodman, shot down over
Damascus, after a personal appeal from Rev. Jesse Jackson.
1985 - Soprano, Leontyne Price bids adieu to the Metropolitan Opera in
New York. She sings the title role of "Aida". Price had been
part of the Metropolitan Opera since 1961.
1985 - The Israeli government confirms the resettlement of 10,000
Ethiopian Jews.
1987 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first female artist -
"Lady Soul," Aretha Franklin.
1989 - "The Arsenio Hall Show" premieres. It is the first regularly
scheduled nightly talk show to star an African American.
1997 - Bryant Gumbel co-hosts his final "Today" show on NBC.
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