* Today in Black History - January 14 *
1868 - The South Carolina constitutional convention, the first
official assembly in the western hemisphere with an African
American majority, meets in the Charleston Clubhouse with
seventy-six African American delegates and forty-eight white
delegates. Two-thirds of the African American delegates are
former slaves. A New York Herald reporter writes: "Here in
Charleston is being enacted the most incredible, hopeful, and
yet unbelievable experiment in all the history of mankind."
1868 - The North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh,
with fifteen African American and one hundred eighteen whites
in attendance.
1873 - P.B.S. Pinchback is elected to the U.S. Senate. Since he had
previously been elected to Congress, he went to Washington
with the unique distinction of being both a senator-elect and
a congressman-elect.
1874 - I.D. Shadd is elected Speaker of the Lower House of the
Mississippi legislature.
1916 - Author John Oliver Killens is born in Macon, Georgia. Among
his books will be the novels "Youngblood," "And Then We
Heard the Thunder", "Sippi", and "The Cotillion or One Good
Bull Is Half the Herd." He will receive Pulitzer Prize
nominations for two of his novels. He will also found the
National Black Writers Conference at Medgar Evers College in
1986, where he teaches English. He will join the ancestors on
October 27, 1987 after succumbing to cancer.
1930 - Biologist and pioneer of cell division, Ernest E Just, is named
Vice-President of the American Zoological Society.
1940 - Horace Julian Bond is born in Nashville, Tennessee. He will be
one of several hundred students from across the South who will
found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
He will become SNCC's communications director. He will spend
over twenty years of service in the Georgia General Assembly,
after having his first elective seats denied him in the
mid-sixties. Bond will be known also for his narration of many
civil rights oriented programs, most notably, the critically
acclaimed 1987 and 1990 PBS series, "Eyes on the Prize." He
will become Chairman of the NAACP in February, 1998.
1948 - Carl Weathers is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He will
become an actor and is best known for his portrayal of
fictional boxer Apollo Creed in the "Rocky" movies.
1970 - Diana Ross and the Supremes perform their last concert
together, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.
1975 - William T. Coleman is named Secretary of Transportation by
President Gerald R. Ford. He is the second African American
to hold a Cabinet-level position.
1979 - After much pressure from civil rights leaders and others,
President Jimmy Carter proposes Martin Luther King Jr.'s
birthday become a federal holiday.
1981 - James Frank, president of Lincoln University in Jefferson City,
Missouri, is installed as the first African American president
of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
1987 - The National Urban League's report "State of Black America"
blasts President Reagan's policies, stating, "Black Americans
enter 1987 besieged by the resurgence of raw racism, persistent
economic depression and the continue erosion of past gains."
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