* Today in Black History - January 7 *
1822 - A colony of free African Americans sent to Africa by the American
Colonization Society, is established on the west coast of
Africa. It is the beginning of the African-American colonization
of Liberia. This colony will become the independent nation of
Liberia in 1847.
1868 - The Mississippi constitutional convention convenes in Jackson.
It is attended by seventeen African Americans and eighty-three
whites.
1868 - The Arkansas constitutional convention convenes in Little Rock.
It is attended by eight African Americans and forty-three
whites.
1890 - William B. Purvis is awarded patent #419,065 for the fountain
pen.
1891 - Zora Neale Hurston, who will become a brilliant folklorist,
novelist, and short story writer, is born in Notasulga,
Alabama. For reasons known only to her, she will claim 1901 as
her birth year and the all-Black town of Eatonville, Florida as
her birthplace. She will be one of the more influential writers
of the Harlem Renaissance, known for her novel "Their Eyes Were
Watching God" and her folklore collections, including "Of Mules
and Men." She will join the ancestors on January 28, 1960.
1892 - A mine explosion kills 100 in Krebs, Oklahoma. African Americans
trying to help rescue white survivors, are driven away at
gunpoint.
1911 - Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen is born in Tampa, Florida. She will
be educated in Augusta, Georgia and Long Island, New York. After
graduation, she will study dance, joining the Venezuela Jones
Negro Youth Group. After performing in the "Butterfly Ballet"
(in a 1935 production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream") McQueen
will be dubbed---and forever referred to as---"Butterfly". She
will make her stage debut in George Abbot's "Brown Sugar", and
soon after, in 1939, she will appear as Lulu in "The Women" and
in her most famous role, Prissy in "Gone With The Wind." She
will join the ancestors on December 22, 1995.
1927 - The first touring Harlem Globetrotter game is played in
Hinckley, Illinois before a crowd of 300 people. It will be a
success, bringing in $75 in profit.
1950 - The James Weldon Johnson Collection officially opens at Yale
University. Established in 1941 through a gift by Grace Nail
Johnson, widow of the famed author, diplomat and NAACP official,
the collection will eventually include the papers of Johnson,
Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Dubois, Richard Wright, Jean Toomer,
Zora Neale Hurston, and many other writers of the Harlem
Renaissance.
1955 - Marian Anderson appears as Ulrica in Verdi's "Un Ballo in
Maschera" with the New York Metropolitan Opera. In her debut
performance at the Met, Anderson becomes the first African
American ever to sing with the company.
1964 - The Bahamas achieve internal self-government & cabinet level
responsibility.
2003 - Thurgood Marshall, a famed civil rights lawyer and U.S. Supreme
Court Justice, is honored by the United States Postal Service
with the 26th stamp issuance in the Black Heritage Commemorative
Series.
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