* Today in Black History - January 19 *
1918 - John H. Johnson is born in Arkansas City, Mississippi. He will
become the founder and president of Johnson Publishing Company,
Inc., the most prosperous African American publishing company
in America. His company will publish "Negro Digest"(his
first), "Ebony," "Jet," "Black Star," "Black World" and "Ebony
Jr." magazines. He will receive numerous awards, including the
Horatio Alger Award, the NAACP Spingarn Medal and the National
Newspaper Publishers Association's Henry Johnson Fisher Award
for outstanding contributions to publishing.
1952 - The PGA Tournament Committee votes to allow African American
golfers to compete in sanctioned golf tournaments.
1959 - In a letter to her mother shortly before the opening of her
first play, "A Raisin in the Sun," Lorraine Hansberry says
"Mama, it is a play that tells the truth about people Negroes
and life and I think it will help a lot of people to understand
how we are just as complicated as they are-- and just as mixed
up--but above all, that we have among our miserable and
downtrodden ranks--people who are the very essence of human
dignity. That is what, after all the laughter and tears, the
play is supposed to say."
1970 - The California state board of regents fires Angela Davis from
her teaching position at the University of California at Los
Angeles for being a communist. This will be done at the
urging of then Governor Ronald Reagan. Her dismissal will be
overturned later by the courts, but the board of regents will
refuse to renew her contract at the end of the 1969-1970
academic year.
1983 - In its "State of Black America" annual report, the National
Urban League warns that the recession had disproportionately
hurt African Americans: "A major question facing the nation
in 1983 is whether the inevitable restructuring of the
American economy will include Black people."
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