* 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 & 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.
1944 - Sharon Pratt is born in Washington, DC. In 1990, as Sharon
Pratt Dixon, she will be elected the first woman 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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