*		Today in Black History - March 10	      *

1850 - Hallie Quinn Brown is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She 
	will become a Black educator and elocutionist who will 
	pioneer the movement for Black women’s clubs in the United 
	States. The daughter of former slaves, she will receive a 
	B.S. from Wilberforce University in Ohio in 1873. She will 
	then teach on plantations and in the public schools of 
	Mississippi and South Carolina. After graduating from the 
	Chautauqua Lecture School, and teaching in Dayton, Ohio, 
	and in Alabama, she will return to Wilberforce to teach 
	elocution. At that time she will begin her extensive travels 
	as an elocutionist and lecturer, speaking in Europe as well 
	as the United States on topics of the life of Blacks in 
	America. She will assist in founding the earliest women’s 
	clubs for Blacks and, from 1905 to 1912, will serve as 
	president of the Ohio State Federation of Colored Women’s 
	Clubs. She will also help to found the Colored Women’s 
	League of Washington, D.C., a predecessor of 
	the National Association of Colored Women. She will also 
	author "Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction," 
	a 1926 collection of biographical sketches of notable 
	African American women. She will join the ancestors on 
	September 16, 1949, in Wilberforce, Ohio. 

1861 - West African political leader El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city 
	of Segou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali.

1863 - Two U.S. African American infantry regiments, the First and 
	Second South Carolina Volunteers, capture and occupy 
	Jacksonville, Florida, causing panic along the Southern 
	seaboard. These regiments are not to be confused with the
	confederate army First South Carolina Volunteers Infantry 
	Regiment.

1893 - Ivory Coast becomes a French colony (Cote d'Ivoire).

1900 - Regents for the King of Uganda and leading chiefs sign a treaty 
	with Great Britain agreeing to the organization of the 
	government, taxation, courts, military, and other functions of 
	their country, which is under British protection.

1910 - The Pittsburgh Courier begins publishing. It will become one 
	of the most influential African American newspapers in the 
	country. In 1966, it will change its name to the "New 
	Pittsburgh Courier," and continue to operate as a semi-weekly
	publication. In 1987, the Courier will be the winner of the 
	John B. Russwurm award for excellence in responsible 
	journalism given by the National Newspaper Publishers
	Association to the top African American Newspapers in America. 

1913 - Harriet Tubman joins the ancestors in Auburn, New York. An 
	escaped slave, Tubman was known to the Underground Railroad as 
	"Black Moses" for her heroic trips south to free hundreds of 
	slaves. During the Civil War, she served as a scout, spy, 
	cook, and nurse. 

1963 - Jasmine Guy is born in Boston, Massachusetts. She will become
	an actress on television and will be best known for her role
	as "Whitley" in the series "A Different World." 

1969 - James Earl Ray pleads guilty in the first degree to the murder 
	of Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. and will be sentenced to 99 years 
	in prison. The House Select Committee on Assassinations will 
	later state that although it believes Ray shot King, Ray was 
	part of a larger conspiracy. Ray will later repudiate that 
	plea, maintaining his innocence until his death.

1972 - Three thousand delegates and five thousand observers attend
	the first African American political convention in Gary, 
	Indiana. The NAACP and other groups withdraw from the 
	convention after the adoption of resolutions that are critical
	of busing and the state of Israel.

1990 - Haitian ruler Lt. Gen. Prosper Avril resigns during a popular 
	uprising against his military regime.

2017 - Joni Sledge joins the ancestors at her home in Phoenix, Arizona.
	She was best known as a member of the pop group "Sister Sledge."

______________________________________________________________
           Munirah Chronicle is edited by Mr. Rene' A. Perry
              "The TRUTH shall make you free"

   E-mail:   <[log in to unmask]>
   Archives: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html
             http://blackagenda.com/cybercolonies/index.htm
   _____________________________________________________________
   To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]>
   In the E-mail body place:  Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name
   ______________________________________________________________
   Munirah(TM) is a trademark of Information Man. Copyright 1997 - 2016,
   All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with
   The Black Agenda.