* Today in Black History - January 19 *
1918 - John H. Johnson is born in Arkansas City, Mississippi. He will
become the founder and president of Johnson Publishing Company,
Inc., the most prosperous African American publishing company in
America. His company will publish "Negro Digest"(his first),
"Ebony," "Jet," "Black Star," "Black World" and "Ebony Jr."
magazines. He will receive numerous awards, including the Horatio
Alger Award, the NAACP Spingarn Medal and the National Newspaper
Publishers Association's Henry Johnson Fisher Award for
outstanding contributions to publishing.
1952 - The PGA Tournament Committee votes to allow African American
golfers to compete in sanctioned golf tournaments.
1959 - In a letter to her mother shortly before the opening of her first
play, "A Raisin in the Sun," Lorraine Hansberry says "Mama, it
is a play that tells the truth about people Negroes and life and I
think it will help a lot of people to understand how we are just
as complicated as they are-- and just as mixed up--but above all,
that we have among our miserable and downtrodden ranks--people
who are the very essence of human dignity. That is what, after
all the laughter and tears, the play is supposed to say."
1970 - The California state board of regents fires Angela Davis from her
teaching position at the University of California at Los Angeles
for being a communist. This will be done at the urging of then
Governor Ronald Reagan. Her dismissal will be overturned later
by the courts, but the board of regents will refuse to renew her
contract at the end of the 1969-1970 academic year.
1983 - In its "State of Black America" annual report, the National Urban
League warns that the recession had disproportionately hurt
African Americans: "A major question facing the nation in 1983
is whether the inevitable restructuring of the American economy
will include Black people."
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