*                  Today in Black History - January 8              *

1811 - A slave rebellion begins 35 miles outside of New Orleans,
	Louisiana.  U.S. troops will be called upon to put down the 
	uprising of over 400 slaves, which will last three days.

1837 - Fanny M. Jackson is born a slave in Washington, DC.  She will 
	become the first African American woman college graduate in 
	the United States when she graduates from Oberlin College in 
	1865. After graduation, she will become a teacher at the 
	Institute for Colored Youths in Philadelphia.  In 1869, she 
	will become the first African American woman to head an 
	institution of higher learning when she is made Principal of 
	the Institute.  In the fall of 1881, Fanny will marry the Rev. 
	Levi Jenkins Coppin, a minister of the African Methodist 
	Episcopal Church. The marriage will open a wealth of 
	missionary opportunities for Fanny. When her husband is made 
	Bishop of Cape Town, South Africa, Fanny will accompany him 
	and travel thousands of miles organizing mission societies.
	She will join the ancestors on January 21, 1913 in 
	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1926, a facility for teacher 
	training in Baltimore, Maryland will be named Fanny Jackson 
	Coppin Normal School in her honor. The school is known today 
	as Coppin State University.

1867 - Overriding President Andrew Johnson's veto, Congress passes 
	legislation giving African Americans in the District of 
	Columbia the right to the vote.

1912 - The African National Congress, in South Africa, is formed.

1922 - Colonel Charles Young joins the ancestors in Lagos, Nigeria 
	at the age of 58. He was one of the first African American 
	graduates of West Point, the first to achieve the rank of 
	colonel in the U.S. Army, and the second winner of the 
	NAACP's Spingarn Medal (1916).

1937 - Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey is born in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, 
	Wales, United Kingdom. She will become a professional singer 
	and is best known for her rendition of the James Bond themes: 
	"Goldfinger," "Diamond's Are Forever," and "Moonraker." With 
	thirty-one hits in the United Kingdom Singles Chart, which 
	span a record forty two year period for a female vocalist, 
	plus thirty five hit LPs in the corresponding UK Albums Chart, 
	she will become Britain's most successful female chart artist 
	of all time. In recognition of her career longevity, endurance 
	and a particular admiration from the Royal Family, she will be 
	created a Dame Commander of the British Empire (the female 
	equivalent of a Knight Commander) on December 31, 1999 by Her 
	Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. She will also be awarded France's 
	top honor, the Legion d'Honneur, to signify her enduring 
	popularity and importance in the culture of France.

1975 - The state-owned Alabama Educational Television Commission has 
	its application for license renewal denied by the Federal 
	Communications Commission because of racial discrimination
	against African Americans in employment and programming.

1993 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls, scores his 20,000th 
	career point.

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