* Today in Black History - January 21 *
1830 - The African American population in Portsmouth, Ohio is forcibly
deported by order of city officials.
1913 - Fanny M. Jackson Coppin joins the ancestors in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. She was a pioneering educator and missionary and
the first African American woman to graduate from an American
college (Oberlin, 1865). Coppin State College in Baltimore,
Maryland will be named after her.
1920 - James Farmer is born in Marshall, Texas. He will become the
founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1943 and
will be a major force in the modern civil right movement in the
United States.
1938 - Jack and Jill of America, Inc. is founded in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, by Marion Turner Stubbs Thomas. Dedicated to
providing educational, cultural, civic, and social programs for
African American youth, Jack and Jill will grow to have 180
chapters nationwide.
1941 - Richard "Richie" P. Havens is born in Brooklyn, New York. He
will grow up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant community, the eldest of
nine children. He will become a folk singer, influenced in his
early days by Nina Simone. It will be as a live performer,
that he will first earn widespread notice. Richie will play
the 1966 Newport Folk Festival, the 1967 Monterey Jazz Festival,
the January 1968 Woody Guthrie Memorial Concert at Carnegie
Hall, the December 1968 Miami Pop Festival, the 1969 Isle of
Wight Festival, and of course, the 1969 Woodstock festival in
upstate New York.
1950 - Billy Ocean is born in Jamaica. He will become a popular singer
and be known for his releases of "Suddenly," and "Caribbean Queen."
1963 - Akeem Olajuwon is born in Nigeria. He will become one of five
boys born to his parents with one sister. He will come to the
United States and play collegiate basketball for the University
of Houston. He will be selected by the Houston Rockets in the
first round (first pick overall) of the 1984 NBA Draft. After
twelve years of play in the NBA, he will be selected in 1996 as
one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Olajuwon will
add a "H" to his first name on 3/9/1991 and become an United
States citizen on 4/2/1993. The University of Houston will
retire his jersey, # 34, on 2/12/97.
1964 - Carl T. Rowan is named director of the U.S. Information Agency,
the highest position ever held by an African American. By
virtue of his position, he also becomes the first African
American to sit on the National Security Council.
1971 - Twelve African American congressmen boycott Richard Nixon's State
of the Union Address because of his "consistent refusal" to
respond to the petitions of African Americans.
1982 - Blues guitar singer B.B. King donates his entire record collection
to the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of
Southern Culture. The collection includes about 7,000 rare blues
records he played when he worked as a disc jockey in Memphis.
Born Riley B. King, he called himself the "Beale Street Blues
Boy," later shortened to B.B. B.B. King is considered one of the
most influential blues musicians in history.
1990 - Quincy Jones is awarded the French Legion of Honor for his
contributions to music as a trumpeter, composer, arranger, and
record producer.
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