*                Today in Black History - January 26                *

1863 - The War Department authorizes the governor of Massachusetts 
	to enlist African American troops to fight in the Civil 
	War. The 54th and 55th Volunteer Infantry are the result.

1897 - At the Battle at Bida, British troops defeat Nupe's army.

1893 - Bessie Coleman was born in Altanta, Texas, the tenth of 
	thirteen children. She will grow up to become the first 
	African American female pilot (June 15, 1921) and the first
	woman to obtain an international flying license (from the 
	Fédération Aéronautique Internationale). She will join the
	ancestors on April 30, 1926, after being thrown from her 
	airplane in Jacksonville, Florida.

1932 - George H. Clements is born in Chicago, Illinois. He will 
	become a priest in the Washington, DC area nationally known 
	for his anti-drug activism and involvement in the group "One 
	Church, One Addict." In 1981, he will gain public attention 
	when he becomes the first Roman Catholic priest to adopt a 
	child. The same year, he will found the "One Church, 
	One Child" Program in Chicago at the Holy Angels Church, a 
	predominantly black Catholic church. His goal will be to 
	recruit black adoptive parents through local churches. Rev. 
	Clements will be named to the National Committee for 
	Adoption's Hall of Fame in 1989 for his outstanding 
	leadership and the great interest he generated in black 
	adoptions. The One Church, One Child program will become a
	national recruiting effort in 1988, and 32 states will use
	all or portions of the program. Its originally envisioned 
	mission is to combine the resources of the church and the 
	state to the end of recruiting black adoptive parents to 
	provide permanent homes for Black children awaiting adoption.

1934 - The Apollo Theatre opens in New York City as a 'Negro 
	vaudeville theatre'. It will become the showplace for many 
	of the great African American entertainers, singers, groups 
	and instrumentalists in the country. The saying will 
	become common "If you made it... you played it..." at the 
	Apollo Theatre. 

1934 - Huey "Piano" Smith is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He will
	become a Rhythm and Blues pianist and will be best known for
	his recording of "Having a Good Time." His piano playing 
	will incorporate the boogie styles of Pete Johnson, Meade Lux 
	Lewis, and Albert Ammons, the jazz style of Jelly Roll Morton 
	and the rhythm-and-blues style of Fats Domino. AllMusic 
	journalist Steve Huey will note that "At the peak of his game, 
	Smith epitomized New Orleans R&B at its most infectious and 
	rollicking, as showcased on his classic signature tune, 'Don't 
	You Just Know It.'" In 2000, he will be honored with a Pioneer 
	Award by the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

1943 - Sherian Grace Cadoria is born in Marksville, Louisiana.  She 
	will make her career in the United States Army after 
	graduating from Southern University in Louisiana. In 1985, 
	she will be promoted to brigadier general, making her the 
	highest ranking African American woman in the U.S. military. 
	She will be the first woman elevated to that rank in the 
	Provost Marshal Corps. She will eventually become Director 
	of Manpower and Personnel for the Organization of the Joint 
	Chiefs of Staff. General Cadoria will say that she has 
	"gotten more pressure from being a woman in a man's world 
	than from being black." She will accomplish many firsts: 
	she will be the first woman to command a battalion; the 
	first woman to command a criminal investigation brigade; the 
	first African American woman director for the Joint Chiefs 
	of Staff; and the first woman to attend the Army’s top 
	colleges, Command and General Staff College and the U.S. 
	Army War College. She will be the senior African American 
	female general in the U.S. Armed Forces upon her retirement 
	in November 1990 after serving 29 years. Following 
	retirement, General Cadoria will found her own business, 
	Cadoria Speaker and Consultancy Service. On November 11, 
	2002, she will become the first woman and the first African 
	American inducted into the Louisiana Military Veterans Hall 
	of Honor.

1944 - Angela Yvonne Davis is born in Birmingham, Alabama. Active 
	in civil rights demonstrations and in the Student Non-
	Violent Coordinating Committee, she will be fired twice 
	from the University of California at Los Angeles because of 
	her Communist Party affiliation and she will successfully 
	sue for reinstatement. A philosopher and author, she will 
	flee the law after being implicated in the 1970 Soledad 
	Brothers shooting. After sixteen months in jail, she will 
	be acquitted of all charges.

1958 - Anita Baker is born in Toledo, Ohio. A singer of ballads 
	and jazz-inspired Rhythm and Blues, her 1986 album "Rapture"
	will sell five million copies and earn her a 1987 Grammy.  
	She will win two more in 1989.

1970 - Kirk Franklin is born in Ft. Worth, Texas. He will become a 
	Grammy Award winning, platinum-selling musician who will 
	blend gospel, hip hop, and Rhythm & Blues in the 1990s. He 
	will release his first gospel album, "Kirk Franklin & 
	Family," in 1993, and will be known as the leader of 
	contemporary gospel choirs such as Kirk Franklin & the 
	Family, Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation, God's Property and Kirk 
	Franklin Presents 1NC. He will integrate hip hop styles 
	with gospel themes in albums such as "The Nu Nation Project
	and God's Property, which will achieve success on the 
	Billboard Pop Album, Rhythm & Blues and gospel charts. He 
	will collaborate with the biggest names in gospel music, 
	including Mary Mary, Tonex, Donnie McClurkin, Richard 
	Smallwood, Crystal Lewis, Pastor Shirley Caesar, tobyMac, 
	Jaci Valesquez, and Willie Neal Johnson. He will also 
	display	a willingness to collaborate with artists from the 
	secular realm, including Bono, Mary J. Blige, and R. Kelly 
	on the hit single from his album Nu Nation Project, "Lean 
	on Me."

1990 - Elaine Weddington Steward is named assistant general manager 
	of the Boston Red Sox. She becomes the first African 
	American female executive of a professional baseball 
	organization.

2003 - Serena Williams defeats Venus Williams (7-6, 3-6, 6-4) at the
	91st Women's Australian Open.

2005 - Dr. Condoleezza Rice is confirmed by the U.S. Senate as 
	Secretary of State. She becomes the first African American 
	woman to hold this post.

2010 - Paul R. Jones, a collector of African American art who donated 
	thousands of works to universities in Delaware and Alabama, 
	joins the ancestors in Atlanta, Georgia, at the age of 81.
	"My goal has been to incorporate African American art into 
	American art," he told The Tuscaloosa News in 2008 when he 
	made his donation to the University of Alabama with a plan for 
	it to be part of the curriculum. He embraced the school even 
	though he was turned down by the University of Alabama Law 
	School in 1949 after it discovered he was Black.

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