* Today in Black History - March 2 *
1807 - "The importation of slaves into the United States or the territories
thereof" after January 1, 1808 is banned by Congress. Although
abolitionists will hail the ban, it will not significantly affect
the U.S. supply of slaves. Illegal importation will continue
through Florida and Texas. The law also has no provision to
restrict the internal slave trade, and the reproduction rate of
American slaves is high enough to allow an active trade. Therefore
the domestic slave trade continues to prosper after 1808.
1867 - Howard University is chartered by Congress in Washington, DC.
Also founded or chartered are Talladega College in Talledega,
Alabama, Morgan State College in Baltimore, Maryland, Johnson C.
Smith College in Charlotte, North Carolina, and St. Augustine's
College in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1867 - The first of a succession of Reconstruction acts is passed by
Congress. The acts divide the former Confederate states into
five military districts under the command of army generals.
1867 - African Americans vote in municipal election in Alexandria,
Virginia, for perhaps the first time in the South. The election
commissioners refuse to count the fourteen hundred votes and
military officials suspend local elections pending clarification
of the status of the freedmen.
1867 - Elections are ordered for constitutional conventions and freedmen
are enfranchised. Commanders in some states change the status of
African Americans by military orders. Major General E.R.S. Canby
opens the jury box to African Americans. African Americans are
named policemen in Mobile, Alabama.
1885 - George W. Williams, minister, lawyer and historian, is named
minister to Haiti. The appointment is vacated by the new
administration.
1896 - In the battle of Aduwa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) defeats the troops of
the invading Italians.
1919 - Claude A. Barnett establishes the Associated Negro Press (ANP),
the first national news service for African American newspapers.
The goal of the ANP is to provide national news releases to
African American publishers. The ANP will operate for the next
48 years and have, at one time, 95% of all African American
newspapers as subscribers.
1921 - Harry Pace establishes Pace Phonograph Corporation to produce
records on the Black Swan label. It is the first African
American owned and operated record company and will record
blues, jazz, spirituals, and operatic arias.
1961 - 180 African American students and a white minister are arrested in
Columbia, South Carolina after anti-segregation march.
1962 - Philadelphia 76er Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in an NBA
game against the New York Knicks. It is a feat Chamberlain will
repeat but one which has not been equaled by another NBA player
to date.
1980 - Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns wins the vacant USBA Welterweight title.
This is one of five weight classes in which he has won a boxing
title, making him the first African American to win boxing
titles in five different weight classes.
1986 - Sidney Barthelemy is elected mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana,
succeeding Ernest Morial as the second African American mayor
of the city.
1988 - J. Saunders Redding, author, joins the ancestors in Ithaca, New York
at the age of 81.
1990 - Carole Gist, of Detroit, Michigan, is crowned Miss USA. She becomes
the first African American to win the title.
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