* Today in Black History - March 10 *
1850 - Hallie Quinn Brown is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She
will become a Black educator and elocutionist who will
pioneer the movement for Black women’s clubs in the United
States. The daughter of former slaves, she will receive a B.S.
from Wilberforce University in Ohio in 1873. She will then
teach on plantations and in the public schools of Mississippi
and South Carolina. After graduating from the Chautauqua
Lecture School, and teaching in Dayton, Ohio, and in Alabama,
she will return to Wilberforce to teach elocution. At that
time she will begin her extensive travels as an elocutionist
and lecturer, speaking in Europe as well as the United States
on topics of the life of Blacks in America. She will assist in
founding the earliest women’s clubs for Blacks and, from 1905
to 1912, will serve as president of the Ohio State Federation
of Colored Women’s Clubs. She will also help to found the
Colored Women’s League of Washington, D.C., a predecessor
of the National Association of Colored Women. She will also
author "Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction,"
a 1926 collection of biographical sketches of notable African
American women. She will join the ancestors on September
16, 1949, in Wilberforce, Ohio.
1863 - Two U.S. African American infantry regiments, the First and
Second South Carolina Volunteers, capture and occupy
Jacksonville, Florida, causing panic along the Southern
seaboard. These regiments are not to be confused with the
confederate army First South Carolina Volunteers Infantry
Regiment.
1910 - The Pittsburgh Courier begins publishing. It will become one
of the most influential African American newspapers in the
country. In 1966, it will change its name to the "New
Pittsburgh Courier," and continue to operate as a semi-weekly
publication. In 1987, the Courier will be the winner of the
John B. Russwurm award for excellence in responsible
journalism given by the National Newspaper Publishers
Association to the top African American Newspapers in
America.
1913 - Harriet Tubman joins the ancestors in Auburn, New York. An
escaped slave, Tubman was known to the Underground
Railroad as "Black Moses" for her heroic trips south to free
hundreds of slaves. During the Civil War, she served as a
scout, spy, cook, and nurse.
1963 - Jasmine Guy is born in Boston, Massachusetts. She will become
an actress on television and will be best known for her role
as "Whitley" in the series "A Different World."
1969 - James Earl Ray pleads guilty in the first degree to the murder
of Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. and will be sentenced to 99 years
in prison. The House Select Committee on Assassinations will
later state that although it believes Ray shot King, Ray was
part of a larger conspiracy. Ray will later repudiate that
plea, maintaining his innocence until his death.
1972 - Three thousand delegates and five thousand observers attend
the first African American political convention in Gary,
Indiana. The NAACP and other groups withdraw from the
convention after the adoption of resolutions that are critical
of busing and the state of Israel.
1990 - Haitian ruler Lt. Gen. Prosper Avril resigns during a popular
uprising against his military regime.
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