* Today in Black History - October 6 *
1776 - Henri Christophe is born a slave in Grenada. He will
become a Haitian revolutionist and ruler and also become
provisional chief of northern Haiti. He will establish
himself as King Henri I in the north and build Citadelle
Laferriere.
1847 - A National Black convention meets in Troy, New York, with
more than sixty delegates from nine states. Nathan
Johnson of Massachusetts is elected president.
1868 - An African American state convention at Macon, Georgia,
protests expulsion of African American politicians from
the Georgia legislature.
1871 - The Fisk Jubilee Singers begin their tour to raise money
for the school. Soon they will become one of the most
popular African American folk-singing groups of the late
19th century, performing throughout the U.S. and Europe
and raising large sums for Fisk's building program.
1917 - Fannie Lou Hamer is born near Ruleville, Mississippi. She
will become a leader of the civil rights movement during
the 1960's and founder of the Mississippi Freedom
Democratic Party in Montgomery County, Mississippi. She
will join the ancestors on March 14, 1977.
1921 - Joseph Echols Lowery is born in Huntsville, Alabama. An
early civil rights activist, he will become a founder,
chairman of the board, and president of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference. He will lead SCLC to
great levels of civil rights activism including a 2,700
mile pilgrimage to extend and strengthen the Voting
Rights Act, protesting toxic waste sites in African
American communities, and actions against United States'
corporations doing business in apartheid South Africa.
The NAACP will give him an award at its 1997 convention
for, "dean of the civil rights movement," and Lifetime
Achievement Award. He will also receive the Martin Luther
King Jr. Center Peace Award and the National Urban League's
Whitney M. Young, Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2004.
Ebony magazine will name him one of the 15 greatest black
preachers, describing him as, "the consummate voice of
biblical social relevancy, a focused voice, speaking truth
to power.� He will also receive several honorary doctorates
from colleges and universities including, Dillard University,
Morehouse College, Alabama State University, University of
Alabama in Huntsville, and Emory University. He will be
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama, on
July 30, 2009. He will also be given the Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Human Rights Award by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
that same year. In 2004, he will be honored at the
International Civil Rights Walk of Fame at the Martin Luther
King Jr. National Historic Site, located in Atlanta, Georgia.
1965 - Patricia Harris takes the post as U.S. Ambassador to
Belgium, becoming the first African American U.S.
ambassador.
1981 - Anwar Sadat, president of Egypt, is assassinated by
extremists while reviewing a military parade.
1986 - Abram Hill joins the ancestors in New York City. He was
the founder of the city's American Negro Theatre in 1940,
where the careers of Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, and
Sidney Poitier were launched. His adaptation of the play
"Anna Lucasta" premiered on Broadway in 1944 and ran
successfully for 900 performances.
1991 - Williams College's exhibit of African American photography
- "Black Photographers Bear Witness: 100 Years of Social
Protest" opens. The exhibit includes photography by C.M.
Battey, James Van Der Zee, Marvin and Morgan Smith,
Moneta Sleet, Carrie Mae Weems, and others.
1991 - Anita Hill, a former personal assistant to Supreme Court
justice nominee Clarence Thomas, accuses Thomas of sexual
harassment (from 1981-83) during his confirmation hearings.
1994 - South African President, Nelson Mandela, addresses a joint
session of Congress. He will warn against the lure of
isolationism, saying the U.S. post-Cold War focus should
be on eliminating "tyranny, instability and poverty"
across the globe.
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