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1810 - Charles Lenox Remond is born in Salem, Massachusetts to free

            parents.  He will become one of the most prominent of the 

            African American abolitionist crusaders.

 

1810 - The first insurance company managed by African Americans, the 

            American Insurance Company of Philadelphia, is established.

 

1833 - Henry McNeal Turner is born.  He will become one of the first 

            Bishops in the African American Episcopal Church.  He will 

            also be an army chaplain, political organizer, magazine editor, 

            and college chancellor.

 

1865 - John S. Rock becomes the first African American attorney allowed

            to practice before the United States Supreme Court.  Due to his

            poor health, he never actually argued a case before the court,

            succumbing to tuberculosis at the age of 41.

 

1870 - Jonathan Jasper Wright is elected to the South Carolina 

            Supreme Court. He is the first African American to hold a 

            major judicial position.

 

1871 - Jefferson Franklin Long, Republican congressman from Georgia, 

            makes the first speech by an African American on the floor 

            of Congress.  His text is to oppose leniency to former       

            Confederates.

 

1902 - Langston Hughes is born in Joplin, Missouri.  He will be

            known as one of the most prolific American poets of the

            20th century and a leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance. 

            In addition to his poetry,  Hughes will achieve success as 

            an anthologist and juvenile author, write plays and librettos,  

            found theater groups, and be a widely read columnist and 

            humorist.  Among his honors will be the NAACP's Spingarn Medal 

            in 1960. 

 

1938 - Sherman Hemsley is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He will

            become an actor and will known for his roles in the TV shows 

            "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons," and "Amen."

 

1948 - James Johnson, Jr. is born in Buffalo, New York.  He will become 

            a singer, songwriter, producer, and musician working under the

            name "Rick James."  He will be best known for his recording of 

            "Super Freak" and produce Teena Marie, the gold-certified Mary 

            Jane Girls, Eddie Murphy, and others.

 

1957 - P.H. Young becomes the first African American pilot, flying on 

            an United States scheduled passenger airline. 

 

1960 - Four African American college students from North Carolina A&T 

            College in Greensboro, North Carolina sit at a "whites-only" 

            Woolworth's lunch counter and refuse to leave when denied 

service, 

            beginning a sit-in protest. 

 

1963 - Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes a self-governing nation.

 

1965 - More than seven hundred demonstrators, including Dr. Martin 

            Luther King Jr., are arrested in Selma, Alabama.

 

1965 - Ruby Dee becomes the first African American thespian to play a 

            major role at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford,

            Connecticut.

 

1978 - The first stamp of the United States Postal Service's Black

            Heritage USA series honors Harriet Tubman, famed abolitionist 

            and "conductor" on the  Underground Railroad. 

 

1982 - The nations of Senegal & Gambia form a loose confederation 

            named Senegambia.

 

1991 - President F.W. de Klerk of South Africa, states that he will 

            repeal all apartheid laws.

 

1992 - Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract to 

            date ($4.7 million).

 

1997 - BET Holdings and Encore Media Corp. launch BET Movie/Starz, the 

            first 24 hour African American movie channel.

 

2003 - Lt. Colonel Michael P. Anderson, NASA astronaut, joins the 

            ancestors at the age of 43, when the Space Shuttle Columbia 

            explodes during re-entry.

 

2003 - Ramon "Mongo" Santamaria, joins the ancestors in Miami, Florida 

            from stroke complications at the age of 85. He had been 

            considered one of the most influential percussionists of his 

            generation.


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