*		Today in Black History - October 16           *

1849 - George Washington Williams is born in Bedford Springs,
	Pennsylvania. He will become the first major African 
	American historian and founder of two African American
	newspapers, "The Commoner" in Washington, DC, and 
	Cincinnati's "The Southern Review."
  
1849 - Charles L. Reason is named professor of belles-lettres 
	and French at Central College in McGrawville, New York. 
	William G. Allen and George B. Vashon also will teach 
	at the predominantly white college.

1855 - More than one hundred delegates from six states hold a 
	Black convention in Philadelphia.  

1855 - John Mercer Langston, one of the first African Americans
	to win public office, is elected clerk of Brownhelm 
	Township, Lorain County, Ohio.

1859 - Osborne Perry Anderson, a free man, is one of five 
	African Americans in John Brown's raid on the United 
	States Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.  

1872 - South Carolina Republicans carry the election with a 
	ticket of four whites and four Blacks: Richard H. 
	Gleaves, lieutenant governor; Henry E. Hayne, secretary 
	of state; Francis L. Cardozo, treasurer; and Henry W. 
	Purvis, adjutant general. African Americans win 97 of 
	the 158 seats in the General Assembly and four of the 
	five congressional districts.

1876 - A race riot occurs in Cainhoy, South Carolina.  Five 
	whites and one African American are killed.

1895 - The National Medical Association is founded in Atlanta, 
	Georgia.

1901 - Booker T. Washington dines at the White House with 
	President Theodore Roosevelt and is criticized in the 
	South.

1932 - Chi Eta Phi sorority is founded in Washington, DC.  
	Aliene Carrington Ewell and 11 other women establish 
	the nursing society, which will grow to 72 chapters in 
	22 states, the District of Columbia, and Liberia and 
	will eventually admit both men and women. 

1968 - Tommie Smith and John Carlos hold up their fists in a 
	Black Power salute during the 1968 Summer Games in 
	Mexico City, Mexico. Their actions will come to 
	symbolize the Black Power movement in sports and will 
	result in their suspension from the games two days 
	later.  

1973 - Maynard Jackson becomes the first African American mayor 
	of a major southern city when he was elected mayor of 
	Atlanta, Georgia.  Jackson, at the age of 35, becomes 
	one of the youngest mayors of a major city to ever be 
	elected.

1984 - Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa is awarded 
	the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as a unifying figure 
	in the campaign to resolve the problems of apartheid in
	South Africa.

1990 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), joins the 
	ancestors, after a bout with cancer, at the age of 71.

1995 - Minister Louis Farrakhan of The Nation of Islam speaks at
	The Million Man March in Washington, D.C., which he 
	called for, and organized.  It is known as the "Day of 
	Atonement."

2000 - The Million Family March, called for by Minister Louis 
	Farrakhan, is held in Washington, DC.

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