*                       Today in Black History - February 8
*

 

***********************************************************************

* "Once a year we go through the charade of February being 'Black     *

* History Month.' Black History Month needs to be a 12-MONTH THING.   *

* When we all learn about our history, about how much we've           *

* accomplished while being handicapped with RACISM, it can only       *

* inspire us to greater heights, knowing we're on the giant shoulders *

* of our ANCESTORS." Subscribe to the Munirah Chronicle and receive   *

* Black Facts every day of the year.                                  *

*  To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]>         *

*  In the E-mail body place:  Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name        *

***********************************************************************

 

1865 - The first African American major in the United States Army is a

            physician, Dr. Martin Robinson Delany.

 

1894 - Congress repeals the Enforcement Act, which makes it easier for 

            some states to disenfranchise African American voters. 

        

1925 - Marcus Garvey is sent to federal prison in Atlanta, Georgia for

            mail fraud in connection with the sale of stock in his Black 

            Star Line.  His prosecution was vigorously advocated by several 

            prominent African American leaders, including Robert Sengstacke 

            Abbott and others.  Garvey was railroaded because of the power

            he had amassed over the African American population of America. 

 

1925 - Students stage a strike at Fisk University to protest the 

            policies of the white administration at the school.

 

1944 - Harry S. McAlpin of the "Daily World" in  Atlanta, Georgia, is 

            the first African American journalist accredited to attend 

            White House press conferences. 

 

1965 - Dr. Joseph B. Danquah, Ghanaian political leader, joins the 

            ancestors.  He had been the leader of the United Gold Coast 

            Convention, a political body which had pressed the British for 

            a gradual relinquishing of colonial rule.  

 

1968 - Gary Coleman is born in Zion, Ohio.  He will become a child 

            actor portraying "Arnold" in the television series, "Different 

            Strokes," which aired from 1978 to 1986. 

 

1968 - Highway Patrol Officers kill three South Carolina State 

            University students during a demonstration in Orangeburg, 

            South Carolina.  Students are protesting against a whites-only

            Orangeburg bowling alley.

 

1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers scores 27 points

            while leading his team to a 111-109 victory over the Boston 

            Celtics.  Abdul-Jabbar passes Wilt Chamberlain's NBA career 

            record of 12,682 field goals. 

 

1986 - Oprah Winfrey becomes the first African American woman to host 

            a nationally syndicated talk show.

 

1986 - 5' 7" Spud Webb, of the Atlanta Hawks, wins the NBA Slam Dunk 

            Competition.

 

1990 - CBS News suspends resident humorist Andy Rooney for racial 

            comments he supposedly made to a gay magazine, comments 

            Rooney denies making.

 

1995 - The U.N. Security Council approves sending 7,000 peacekeepers 

            to Angola to cement an accord ending 19 years of civil war. 

 

2000 - Edna Griffin, an Iowa civil-rights pioneer best known for 

            integrating lunch counters, joins the ancestors at the age of

            90.  In 1948, Griffin led the fight against Katz Drug Store in 

            downtown Des Moines, which refused to serve blacks at its 

            lunch counter. Griffin staged sit-ins, picketed in front of 

            the store and filed charges against the store's owner, Maurice 

            Katz, who was fined. The Iowa Supreme Court then enforced the

            law which made it illegal to deny service based on race.  She 

            organized Iowans to attend the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 

            1963 march on Washington, D.C., and helped start the former 

            radio station KUCB. On May 15, 1999, Des Moines' mayor 

            proclaimed "Edna Griffin Day."  On February 5, 2000, Griffin was


            inducted into the Iowa African American Hall of Fame.     


______________________________________________________________
           Munirah Chronicle is edited by Brother Mosi Hoj
              "The TRUTH shall make you free"

   E-mail:   <[log in to unmask]>
   Archives: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html
             http://blackagenda.com/cybercolonies/index.htm
   _____________________________________________________________
   To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]>
   In the E-mail body place:  Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name
   ______________________________________________________________
   Munirah(TM) is a trademark of Information Man. Copyright 1998 - 2006,
   All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with
   The Black Agenda.