*  Today in Black History - February 10  *

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 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.

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

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