*               Today in Black History - October 6              *

1776 - Henri Christophe, Haitian revolutionist and ruler who will
        become provisional chief of northern Haiti, is born a slave
        in Grenada.  He will establish himself as King Henri I in the
        north and build Citadelle Laferriere.

1847 - National Black convention meets in Troy, New York, with more
        than sixty delegates from nine states.  Nathan Johnson of
        Massachusetts is elected president.

1868 - An African American state convention at Macon, Georgia, protests
        expulsion of African American politicians from the Georgia
        legislature.

1871 - The Fisk Jubilee Singers begin their tour to raise money for
        the school. Soon they will become one of the most popular
        African American folk-singing groups of the late 19th century,
        performing throughout the U.S. and Europe and raising large
        sums for Fisk's building program.

1917 - Fannie Lou Hamer is born near Ruleville, Mississippi.  She will
        become a leader of the civil rights movement during the 1960's
        and founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in
        Montgomery County,  Mississippi.

1921 - Joseph Echols Lowery is born in Huntsville, Alabama.  An early
        civil rights activist, he will become a founder, chairman of
        the board, and president of the Southern Christian Leadership
        Conference.  He will lead SCLC to great levels of civil rights
        activism including a 2,700-mile pilgrimage to extend and
        strengthen the Voting Rights Act, protesting toxic waste sites
        in African American communities, and actions against United
        States' corporations doing business in apartheid South Africa.

1965 - Patricia Harris takes the post as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium,
        becoming the first African American U.S. ambassador.

1981 - Anwar Sadar, president of Egypt, is assasinated.

1986 - Abram Hill dies in New York City. He was the founder of the
        city's American Negro Theatre in 1940, where the careers of
        Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, and Sidney Poitier were launched.
        Hill's adaptation of the play "Anna Lucasta" premiered on
        Broadway in 1944 and ran successfully for 900 performances.

1991 - Williams College's exhibit of African American photography -
        "Black Photographers Bear Witness: 100 Years of Social Protest"
        opens. The exhibit includes photography by C.M. Battey, James
        Van Der Zee, Marvin and Morgan Smith, Moneta Sleet, Carrie Mae
        Weems, and others.

1991 - Anita Hill, a former personal assistant to Supreme Court justice
        nominee Clarence Thomas, accuses Thomas of sexual harassment
        from 1981-83.

1994 - South African President, Nelson Mandela, addresses a joint
        session of Congress.

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