* Today in Black History - October 19 *
1859 - Co-founder of Virginia State College, Byrd Prillerman, is born.
1870 - The first African Americans are elected to the House of
Representatives. African American Republicans won three of
the four congressional seats in South Carolina: Joseph H.
Rainey, Robert C. Delarge and Robert B. Elliott. Rainey was
elected to an unexpired term in the Forty-first Congress and
was the first African American seated in the House.
1920 - LaWanda Page, actress (Aunt Esther-Sanford & Sons), is born in
Cleveland, Ohio.
1924 - "From Dixie to Broadway" premieres at the Broadhurst Theatre
in New York City. The music is written by Will Vodery, an
African American, who arranged music for the Ziegfeld Follies
for 23 years.
1936 - Johnnetta Betsch (later Cole) is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
She will have a distinguished career as an educator and
administrator and will become the first African American woman
to head Spelman College.
1944 - Peter Tosh is born in Westmoreland, Jamaica. He will become
a founding father of reggae music.
1944 - The Navy announces that African American women could join
Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).
1946 - The first exhibition of the work of Josef Nassy, an American
citizen of Dutch-African descent, is held in Brussels. The
exhibit consists of 90 paintings and drawings Nassy created
while in a Nazi-controlled internment camp during World War
II.
1960 - Jennifer Holiday, singer/actress (Dream Girls), is born.
1960 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested in an Atlanta, Georgia
sit-in demonstration.
1962 - Evander Holyfield, boxer and world heavyweight champion, is
born.
1981 - The Martin Luther King, Jr. Library and Archives opens in
Atlanta, Georgia. Founded by Coretta Scott King, the facility
is the largest repository in the world of primary resource
material on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., nine major civil
rights organizations, and the American civil rights movement.
1983 - Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop is assassinated after
refusing to share leadership of the New Jewel Movement with
his deputy, Bernard Coard. This event will indirectly lead
to the invasion of Grenada by the United States and six
Caribbean nations.
1983 - The U.S. Senate establishes the Martin Luther King, Jr. federal
holiday on the third Monday in January.
1988 - South African anti-apartheid leader, Sisulu wins $100,000 Human
Rights prize.
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