* Today in Black History - January 21 *
1830 - The African American population in Portsmouth, Ohio is
forcibly deported by order of city officials.
1913 - Fanny M. Jackson Coppin joins the ancestors in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. She was a pioneering educator and missionary
and the first African American woman to graduate from an
American college (Oberlin, 1865). Coppin State College in
Baltimore, Maryland will be named after her.
1938 - Jack and Jill of America, Inc. is founded in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, by Marion Turner Stubbs Thomas. Dedicated to
providing educational, cultural, civic, and social programs
for African American youth, Jack and Jill will grow to have
180 chapters nationwide.
1941 - Richard "Richie" P. Havens is born in Brooklyn, New York.
He will grow up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant community, the
eldest of nine children. He will become a folk singer,
influenced in his early days by Nina Simone. It will be as
a live performer, that he will first earn widespread notice.
Richie will play the 1966 Newport Folk Festival, the 1967
Monterey Jazz Festival, the January 1968 Woody Guthrie
Memorial Concert at Carnegie Hall, the December 1968 Miami
Pop Festival, the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival, and of course,
the 1969 Woodstock festival in upstate New York.
1950 - Leslie Sebastien Charles in born in Fyzabad, Trinidad. He
will emigrate to England at the age of eight and will later
become a popular singer known as "Billy Ocean." He will
release hits such as "Suddenly," "Caribbean Queen," "Get
Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car," "When The Going Gets
Tough, The Tough Get Going" (which was featured in the movie,
The Jewel Of The Nile), and "To Make You Cry."
1963 - Akeem Olajuwon is born in Nigeria. He will become one of five
boys born to his parents with one sister. He will come to
the United States and play collegiate basketball for the
University of Houston. He will be selected by the Houston
Rockets in the first round (first pick overall) of the 1984
NBA Draft. After twelve years of play in the NBA, he will be
selected in 1996 as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA
History. Olajuwon will add a "H" to his first name on 3/9/1991
and become an United States citizen on 4/2/1993. The University
of Houston will retire his jersey, # 34, on 2/12/97.
1964 - Carl T. Rowan is named director of the U.S. Information Agency,
the highest position ever held by an African American. By
virtue of his position, he also becomes the first African
American to sit on the National Security Council.
1971 - Twelve African American congressmen boycott Richard Nixon's
State of the Union Address because of his "consistent refusal"
to respond to the petitions of African Americans.
1982 - Blues guitar singer B.B. King donates his entire record
collection to the University of Mississippi's Center for the
Study of Southern Culture. The collection includes about 7,000
rare blues records he played when he worked as a disc jockey
in Memphis. Born Riley B. King, he called himself the "Beale
Street Blues Boy," later shortened to B.B. B.B. King is
considered one of the most influential blues musicians in
history.
1990 - Quincy Jones is awarded the French Legion of Honor for his
contributions to music as a trumpeter, composer, arranger, and
record producer.
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