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1868 - Republican conservatives draft new constitution which 

            concentrates political power in the hands of the governor and 

            limits the impact of the Black vote.  This is made possible by

            Conservatives, aided by military forces, who seize the 

            convention hall and establish control over the reconstruction 

            process in Florida.  

 

1927 - Mary Leontyne Violet Price, who will be acclaimed as one of the

        world's greatest operatic talents, is born in Laurel,

        Mississippi.  She will amass many operatic firsts, being the 

            first African American to sing opera on network television and 

            the first African American to receive the Presidential Medal 

            of Freedom.  Among her honors will be the NAACP's Spingarn 

            Medal, three Emmys, and Kennedy Center Honors. 

 

1939 - Roberta Flack is born in Black Mountain (Asheville), North 

            Carolina. She will begin her professional singing career in 

            Washington, DC. She will go on to win Grammys for "The First 

            Time Ever I Saw Your Face," "Where Is the Love," and  "Killing

            Me Softly with His Song."

 

1942 - Mary Lovelace O'Neal is born in Jackson, Mississippi.  Educated 

            at Howard and Columbia universities, she will become a 

            professor of fine arts and a painter who will exhibit her work 

            in museums in the United States, Morocco, and Chile. 

 

1943 - Eta Phi Beta, the national business and professional sorority, 

            is incorporated in Detroit, Michigan.  It will have chapters 

            throughout the United States and number among its members 

            civil rights activist Daisy Bates and artist Margaret T. 

            Burroughs.

 

1945 - The United States, Russia, Great Britain, and France approve a

            peace treaty with Italy, under which Italy renounces all 

            rights and claims to Ethiopia and Eritrea.

 

1945 - The Chicago Defender reports that over a quarter of a million

            African Americans migrated to California during the years 1942

            and 1943.  As the percentage of African Americans in 

            California increases from 1 1/2% to more than 10% of the total

            population, so does the practice of racial segregation.

 

1971 - Bill White becomes the first African American major league 

            baseball announcer when he begins announcing for the New York 

            Yankees.

 

1989 - Ronald H. Brown, who had served as Jesse Jackson's campaign 

            manager, becomes chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 

            the first African American to hold the position in either 

            party. 

 

1990 - South African President, Frederik Willem de Klerk announces that 

            Nelson Mandela will be set free on February 11th after 27 years

            in prison.

 

1992 - Alex Haley, author of "Roots," and "Autobiography of Malcolm X,"

            joins the ancestors while on a lecture tour in Seattle, 

            Washington at the age of 70.

 

1992 - Mike Tyson is convicted in Indianapolis, Indiana of raping a 

            contestant in the Miss Black America competition and sentenced 

            to six years in an Indiana prison.

 

1998 - Dr. David Satcher is confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become 

            Surgeon General.


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