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1867 - Tennessee Gov. William Gannaway Brownlow issues a proclamation
	warning that the unlawful events of the Ku Klux Klan "must and 
	SHALL cease" and that militia would be immediately organized 
	against the organization.  This is in response to Ku Klux Klan 
	activities in a nine county area.  The Klan’s aim is to 
	reverse the interlocking changes sweeping over the South 
	during the Reconstruction: to destroy the Republican’s party’s 
	infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish 
	control of the black labor force, and restore racial 
	subordination in every aspect of Southern life. (Editor's Note: 
	The KKK was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee on December 15, 1865)

1870 - Hiram Rhoades Revels of Mississippi becomes the first African 
	American Senator.  He is elected by the Mississippi legislature 
	to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jefferson Davis.  After the 
	Senate term expires, he will become the first President of 
	Alcorn A&M College, in Lorman, Mississippi (the first African 
	American land-grant institution in the United States).

1948 - Martin Luther King, Jr. is ordained as a Baptist minister.  
	After graduating from Morehouse College in June, 1948, he will 
	enter the Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania.
	
1964 - Twenty-two year old Cassius Clay becomes world heavyweight 
	boxing champion when he defeats Sonny Liston in Miami, Florida.
	The feared Liston is the favorite, but Clay predicts he will 
	"float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."  Soon after his 
	victory, Clay will assume his Muslim name of Muhammad Ali.  He
	will be considered by many, the greatest heavyweight champion 
	of all time.
 
1978 - Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. joins the ancestors at the age of 
	58 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  James was an early graduate 
	of the Tuskegee Institute Flying School and flew more than 100
	missions during the Korean War.  He was the first African 
	American to achieve the rank of four-star general. 
        
1980 - Robert E. Hayden, African American poet and former poetry 
	consultant to the Library of Congress, joins the ancestors in 
	Ann Arbor, Michigan.  Hayden's most notable works include 
	"Words in Mourning Time and Angle of Ascent: New and Selected 
	Poems."

1991 - Adrienne Mitchell becomes the first African American woman to 
	die in a combat zone in the Persian Gulf War when she joins 
	the ancestors after being killed in her military barracks in 
	Dharan, Saudi Arabia. 

1992 - Natalie Cole, Patti LaBelle, Lisa Fischer, Luther Vandross, 
	B.B. King, Boyz II Men, and James Brown, among others, win 
	Grammy awards in ceremonies hosted by Whoopi Goldberg.

1999 - A jury in Jasper, Texas, sentences white supremacist John 
	William King to death for chaining James Byrd Jr., an African
	American man, to a pickup truck and dragging him to pieces.

2000 - The killers of unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo, four 
	white New York police officers, are acquitted of all charges 
	by a jury in Albany, New York. Diallo had been fired upon 41 
	times, with 19 shots hitting him while holding only his wallet 
	in the vestibule of his own home.

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