* Today in Black History - January 14 *
1868 - The South Carolina constitutional convention, the first official
assembly in the western hemisphere with an African American
majority, meets in the Charleston Clubhouse with seventy-six
African American delegates and forty-eight white delegates.
Two-thirds of the African American delegates are former slaves.
A New York Herald reporter writes: "Here in Charleston is being
enacted the most incredible, hopeful, and yet unbelievable
experiment in all the history of mankind."
1868 - The North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh, with
fifteen African American and one hundred eighteen whites in
attendance.
1873 - P.B.S. Pinchback is elected to the U.S. Senate. Since he had
previously been elected to Congress, he went to Washington with
the unique distinction of being both a senator-elect and a
congressman-elect.
1874 - I.D. Shadd is elected Speaker of the Lower House of the
Mississippi legislature.
1916 - Author John Oliver Killens is born in Macon, Georgia. Among his
books will be the novels "Youngblood," and "And Then We Heard
the Thunder," biographies of Denmark Vesey, John Henry, and
Aleksandr Pushkin, and the script for "Odds Against Tomorrow,"
a 1959 movie starring Harry Belafonte.
1930 - Biologist and pioneer of cell division, Ernest E Just, is named
Vice-President of the American Zoological Society.
1940 - Horace Julian Bond is born in Nashville, Tennessee. He will be
one of several hundred students from across the South who will
found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He
will become SNCC's communications director. He will spend over
twenty years of service in the Georgia General Assembly, after
having his first elective seats denied him in the mid-sixties.
Bond will be known also for his narration of many civil rights
oriented programs, most notably, the critically acclaimed 1987
and 1990 PBS series, "Eyes on the Prize." He will become
Chairman of the NAACP in February, 1998.
1948 - Carl Weathers is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He will become
an actor and is best known for his portrayal of fictional boxer
Apollo Creed in the "Rocky" movies.
1970 - Diana Ross and the Supremes perform their last concert together,
at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.
1975 - William T. Coleman is named Secretary of Transportation by
President Gerald R. Ford. He is the second African American to
hold a Cabinet-level position.
1979 - After much pressure from civil rights leaders and others,
President Jimmy Carter proposes Martin Luther King Jr.'s
birthday become a federal holiday.
1981 - James Frank, president of Lincoln University in Jefferson City,
Missouri, is installed as the first African American president
of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
1987 - The National Urban League's report "State of Black America"
blasts President Reagan's policies, stating, "Black Americans
enter 1987 besieged by the resurgence of raw racism, persistent
economic depression and the continue erosion of past gains."
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