* Today in Black History - January 30 *
1797 - Boston Masons, led by Prince Hall, establish the first
African American interstate organization, creating lodges
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Providence, Rhode
Island.
1797 - Sojourner Truth is born a slave in Hurley, New York. This
is an approximation, since historians cannot agree on the
actual date of her birth.
1797 - Congress refuses to accept the first recorded petitions
from African Americans.
1844 - Richard Theodore Greener becomes the first African American
to graduate from Harvard University.
1858 - William Wells Brown publishes the first drama by an African
American, "Leap to Freedom," Brown is an escaped slave who
will also become noted as an abolitionist and author of
several early historical publications.
1927 - The Harlem Globetrotters, considered by many the most
popular basketball team in the world, is formed by Abe
Saperstein. Originally called the Savoy Five after their
home court, the Savoy Ballroom, in Chicago, Illinois, the
team's name will be changed to the Harlem Globetrotters.
1928 - Ruth Brown is born in Portsmouth, Virginia. She will
become a Rhythm & Blues and jazz singer, recording "So
Long," "Teardrops from My Eyes," "Hours," "Mambo Baby,"
"Lucky Lips," and "This Little Girl's Gone Rockin'."
She will be a Tony Award winner and a rhythm-and-blues
revolutionary--a woman whose early successes earned her
instant worldwide fame and launched a career that has
influenced such legendary performers as Aretha Franklin,
Dinah Washington, Little Richard and Stevie Wonder. She
will join the ancestors on November 17, 2006 in a Las
Vegas area hospital succumbing to complications after a
heart attack and stroke.
1944 - Sharon Pratt is born in Washington, DC. In 1990, as
Sharon Pratt Dixon, she will be elected the first female
mayor of Washington, DC. Her defeat of incumbent Marion
Barry, coupled with her years of community involvement
and activism will raise the beleaguered city's hopes for
positive change.
1945 - Floyd Flake is born in Los Angeles, California. He will
become a congressman from New York's 6th District.
1956 - The home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Montgomery bus
boycott leader, is bombed.
1962 - The United Nations General Assembly censures Portugal
for its widespread violations of human rights in Angola.
1965 - Leroy "Satchel" Paige, major league baseball player, is
named all-time outstanding player by the National
Baseball Congress.
1979 - Franklin A. Thomas becomes the first African American to
head a major U.S. charitable foundation when he is
named president of the Ford Foundation.
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