* Today in Black History - October 6 *
1776 - Henri Christophe is born a slave in Grenada. He will become
a Haitian revolutionist and ruler and also become provisional
chief of northern Haiti. He will establish himself as King
Henri I in the north and build Citadelle Laferriere.
1847 - National Black convention meets in Troy, New York, with more
than sixty delegates from nine states. Nathan Johnson of
Massachusetts is elected president.
1868 - An African American state convention at Macon, Georgia,
protests expulsion of African American politicians from the
Georgia legislature.
1871 - The Fisk Jubilee Singers begin their tour to raise money for
the school. Soon they will become one of the most popular
African American folk-singing groups of the late 19th century,
performing throughout the U.S. and Europe and raising large
sums for Fisk's building program.
1917 - Fannie Lou Hamer is born near Ruleville, Mississippi. She
will become a leader of the civil rights movement during the
1960's and founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic
Party in Montgomery County, Mississippi.
1921 - Joseph Echols Lowery is born in Huntsville, Alabama. An early
civil rights activist, he will become a founder, chairman of
the board, and president of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference. He will lead SCLC to great levels of civil rights
activism including a 2,700-mile pilgrimage to extend and
strengthen the Voting Rights Act, protesting toxic waste sites
in African American communities, and actions against United
States' corporations doing business in apartheid South Africa.
1965 - Patricia Harris takes the post as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium,
becoming the first African American U.S. ambassador.
1981 - Anwar Sadat, president of Egypt, is assassinated by extremists
while reviewing a military parade.
1986 - Abram Hill joins the ancestors in New York City. He was the
founder of the city's American Negro Theatre in 1940, where the
careers of Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, and Sidney Poitier were
launched. Hill's adaptation of the play "Anna Lucasta" premiered
on Broadway in 1944 and ran successfully for 900 performances.
1991 - Williams College's exhibit of African American photography -
"Black Photographers Bear Witness: 100 Years of Social Protest"
opens. The exhibit includes photography by C.M. Battey, James Van
Der Zee, Marvin and Morgan Smith, Moneta Sleet, Carrie Mae Weems,
and others.
1991 - Anita Hill, a former personal assistant to Supreme Court justice
nominee Clarence Thomas, accuses Thomas of sexual harassment
(from 1981-83) during his confirmation hearings.
1994 - South African President, Nelson Mandela, addresses a joint session
of Congress. He will warn against the lure of isolationism,
saying the U.S. post-Cold War focus should be on eliminating
"tyranny, instability and poverty" across the globe.
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