* Today in Black History - January 13 *
1869 - A National Convention of African American leaders meets in
Washington, DC. Frederick Douglass is elected president.
1869 - The first African American labor convention is held when the
Convention of the Colored National Labor Union takes place.
1873 - P.B.S. Pinchback relinquishes the office of governor, saying at
the inauguration of the new Louisiana governor: "I now have the
honor to formally surrender the office of governor, with the
hope that you will administer the government in the interests
of all the people [and that] your administration will be as
fair toward the class that I represent, as mine has been toward
the class represented by you."
1913 - Delta Sigma Theta Sorority is founded on the campus of Howard
University. The sorority will grow, from the original 22
founders, to over 175,000 members in over 800 chapters in the
United States, West Germany, the Caribbean, Liberia, and the
Republic of South Korea.
1953 - Don Barksdale becomes the first African American person to play
in an NBA All-Star Game.
1966 - Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American appointed to
a presidential cabinet position, when President Lyndon B.
Johnson names him to head the newly created Department of
Housing and Urban Development.
1979 - A commemorative stamp of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is issued
by the U.S. Postal Service as part of its Black Heritage USA
commemorative series. The stamp of the slain civil rights
leader is the second in the series.
1979 - Singer Donnie Hathaway joins the ancestors after jumping from
the 15th floor of New York's Essex House hotel.
1982 - Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson are elected to the Baseball Hall
of Fame.
1983 - Citing Muhammad Ali's deteriorating physical condition, the AMA
calls for the banning of prizefighting because new evidence
suggests that chronic brain damage is prevalent in boxers.
1989 - Sterling Allen Brown joins the ancestors in Washington, DC. He
had devoted his life to the development of an authentic black
folk literature. He was one of the first scholars to identify
folklore as a vital component of the black aesthetic and to
recognize its validity as a form of artistic expression. He
worked to legitimatize this genre in several ways. As a
critic, he exposed the shortcomings of white literature that
stereotyped blacks and demonstrated why black authors are best
suited to describe the Black experience. As a poet, he mined
the rich vein of black Southern culture, replacing primitive
or sentimental caricatures with authentic folk heroes drawn
from Afro-American sources. He was associated with Howard
University for almost sixty years.
1990 - The first elected African American governor in the United States,
is inaugurated (L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia). Wilder won the
election in Virginia by a mere 7,000 votes in a state once the
heart of the Confederacy. Later in the year, he will receive
the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for his lifetime achievements.
1999 - Michael Jordan, considered the best player to ever play in the
NBA, retires from professional basketball after thirteen seasons.
This is the second time 'His Airness' has retired. He leaves the
game after leading the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships and
winning five MVP awards.
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