*                Today in Black History - January 15                 *

 

1865 - An African American division, under the command of Major 

            General Charles Paine, participates in the Fort Fisher, 

            North Carolina expedition, which will close the Confederacy's

            last major seaport.

 

1908 - Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority is founded at Howard University in 

            Washington, DC.  The culmination of efforts by Ethel Hedgeman

            (Lyle) and eight other undergraduates, it is the first Greek-

            letter organization for African American women.

 

1929 - Michael Luther King is born in Atlanta, Georgia.  His father 

            will have both of their names changed to Martin Luther King, 

            Sr. and Jr.  Martin Luther King, Jr. will become a Baptist 

            minister, world-renowned civil rights leader, and an advocate 

            of non-violence.  His efforts, beginning with the Montgomery 

            bus boycott in 1955 and continuing for the next 13 years, 

            will fundamentally change civil rights for African Americans 

            and earn him a number of honors and awards, including the 

            Nobel Peace Prize (1964), Medal of Freedom, and the NAACP's 

            Spingarn Medal (1957). He will join the ancestors on April 4, 

            1968 after being assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in 

            Memphis, Tennessee.

 

1941 - Yancey Williams, a Howard University student, asked a federal 

            court to order the Secretary of War and other government 

            officials to consider his application for enlistment in the 

            Army Air Corps as a flying cadet.

 

1950 - More than 4,000 delegates from one hundred national 

            organizations attend the National Emergency Civil Rights 

            Conference in Washington, DC.

 

1968 - Reporting the results of a "Jet" magazine poll, "The New York

            Times" article "Negro History Week Stirs Up Semantic Debate"

            indicates that 59% of those polled prefer the term Afro-

            American or Black to Negro.

 

1970 - Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, the nearby crypt containing 

            the remains of Martin Luther King, Jr., and his boyhood home 

            are dedicated as part of a memorial to be known as the Martin 

            Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Change.

 

1970 - Biafra officially surrenders to the Nigerian government and is

            reintegrated into Nigeria. Odumegwu Ojukwu had declared the 

            independence of the eastern province of Biafra in 1967 to

            guarantee the survival of Igbos, Biafra's ethnic majority 

            group. During the war with Nigeria, as many as 400,000 

            Biafrans died of starvation.

 

1990 - George Foreman knocks out Gerry Cooney in 2 rounds, at the age 

            of forty two.

 

1998 - The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) National  

            President Joseph E. Lowery, steps down from his post and 

            Martin Luther King, III is named the new president, the actual 

            birthday of SCLC  Founding President, Dr. Martin Luther King, 

            Jr.


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