*  Today in Black History - February 18                *

1688 - The first formal protest against slavery by an organized white
        body in the English American colonies is made by Germantown,
        Pennsylvania Quakers and Mennonites at a monthly meeting.  The
        historic "Germantown Protest" denounces slavery and the slave
        trade.

1865 - Confederate Troops abandon Charleston, South Carolina.   The
        first Union troops to enter the city include the Twenty-first
        U.S. Colored Troops, followed by two companies of the Fifty-
        fourth Massachusetts Volunteers.

1867 - The Augusta Institute is founded in Georgia.  It is established
        as an institution of higher learning for African American
        students, and moves to Atlanta in 1879.  In 1913, the name is
        changed to Morehouse College.

1894 - Paul Revere Williams is born in Los Angeles, California.  He
        will become one of the most famous African American
        architects, designer of private  residences in Los Angeles,
        the Hollywood YMCA, the Beverly-Wiltshire Hotel, UCLA's Botany
        Building and many others.  Among his many awards will be the
        NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1953.

1931 - Toni Morrison is born in Lorain, Ohio.  She will become one of
        the most celebrated modern novelists of the 20th century,
        winning the National Book Critics Award in 1978 for "Song of
        Solomon" and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 for
        "Beloved."  In 1993, she will become the first African
        American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

1965 - The Gambia gains its independence from Great Britain.

1973 - Palmer Hayden joins the ancestors in New York City.  One of the
        principal artists of the Harlem Renaissance who, like Henry 0.
        Tanner and others, studied in Paris, his most enduring work
        often depicted everyday scenes of African American life.

1979 - The miniseries "Roots: The Next Generations" premiers on ABC TV.

1995 - The NAACP replaces veteran chairman William Gibson with Myrlie
        Evers-Williams, the widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar
        Evers, after the rank-and-file declared no confidence in
        Gibson's leadership.

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