* Today in Black History - January 29 *
1837 - Aleksandr Sereyevich Pushkin, a Russian of African ancestry
who is considered the "Shakespeare of Russian Literature,"
joins the ancestors after being killed in a duel.
Technically one-eighth African or an octoroon, Pushkin was
by all accounts Negroid in his appearance. His verse
novel "Eugene Onegin" and other works are considered
classics of Russian literature and inspiration for later
great Russian writers such as Gogol, Dostoyevski, and
Tolstoy.
1850 - Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on
slavery which included the admission of California into
the Union as a free state.
1872 - Francis L. Cardoza is elected State Treasurer of South
Carolina.
1908 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, founded at Cornell University
in 1906, is incorporated in the state of New York.
1913 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, founded at Howard University
in 1908, is incorporated in Washington, DC.
1913 - African Americans celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
the Emancipation Proclamation. Major celebrations are
held in Jackson, Mississippi, New Orleans, Louisiana and
Nashville, Tennessee. Pennsylvania, New York and New
Jersey appropriate money for official celebrations of
the event.
1926 - Violette Neatley Anderson is the first African American
woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme
Court.
1954 - Oprah Winfrey is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi. She
will become the first African American woman to host a
nationally syndicated talk show and will be nominated
for an Academy award for best supporting actress in
1985 for her role in "The Color Purple." Following in
the footsteps of Oscar Micheaux and others, she will
also form her own film and television production
company, Harpo Studios, in Chicago, Illinois. In
1988, Harpo Studios will take over ownership and
production of the "Oprah Winfrey Show," making her the
first African American woman to own and produce her
own national talk show.
1966 - Charles Mahoney, the first African American delegate to
the United Nations, joins the ancestors.
1981 - William R. "Cozy" Cole joins the ancestors in Columbus,
Ohio. A jazz drummer who played with Cab Calloway and
Louis Armstrong, he was known as a versatile
percussionist who played in big bands, comedy jazz
groups, and Broadway musicals. In 1958, his recording
of "Topsy" became the only drum solo to sell more than
one million records.
1999 - Ronnie Lott, formally of the San Francisco 49'ers, is
elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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