*                Today in Black History - January 19                 *

1918 - John Harold Johnson is born in Arkansas City, Arkansas. 
	He will become the founder and president of Johnson 
	Publishing Company, Inc., the most prosperous African 
	American publishing company in America. His company will 
	publish the "Negro Digest"(his first), "Ebony," "Jet," 
	"Black Star," "Black World" and "Ebony Jr." magazines. He 
	will receive numerous awards, including the Horatio Alger 
	Award, the NAACP Spingarn Medal and the National Newspaper 
	Publishers Association's Henry Johnson Fisher Award for 
	outstanding contributions to publishing. He will be the 
	first Black person to appear on the Forbes 400 Rich List, 
	and have a fortune estimated at close to $500 million. He 
	will join the ancestors on August 8, 2005.

1952 - The PGA Tournament Committee votes to allow African American 
	golfers to compete in sanctioned golf tournaments.

1959 - In a letter to her mother shortly before the opening of her 
	first play, "A Raisin in the Sun," Lorraine Hansberry says 
	"Mama, it is a play that tells the truth about people, 
	Negroes, and life and I think it will help a lot of people 
	to understand how we are just as complicated as they are-- 
	and just as mixed up--but above all, that we have among our
	miserable and downtrodden ranks--people who are the very 
	essence of human dignity. That is what, after all the 
	laughter and tears, the play is supposed to say."

1970 - The California state board of regents fires Angela Davis 
	from her teaching position at the University of California 
	at Los Angeles for being a Communist. This will be done at 
	the urging of then Governor Ronald Reagan. Her dismissal 
	will be overturned later by the courts, but the board of 
	regents will refuse to renew her contract at the end of the 
	1969-1970 academic year.

1983 - In its "State of Black America" annual report, the National 
	Urban League warns that the recession had disproportionately
	hurt African Americans: "A major question facing the nation
	in 1983 is whether the inevitable restructuring of the 
	American economy will include Black people."

2009 - On the eve of his inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama 
	visits wounded troops at a military hospital, helps to paint 
	a wall at a shelter for homeless teens and pays tribute to 
	the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the civil rights leader's 
	national day. He says there can't be "idle hands" at a time 
	of national hardship and pledges to make the government do 
	its part. Invoking King's legacy as "not just a dreamer, but 
	a doer," He urges all Americans to pitch in and take part in 
	community service. Ever-growing crowds throng to the capital 
	city on the eve of Obama's elevation to the presidency. 
	"Tomorrow, we will come together as one people on the same 
	Mall where Dr. King's dream echoes still," he says.

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