*  Today in Black History - February 9  *

1906 - Never fully recovering from a bout of pneumonia in 1899, poet and
        author Paul Laurence Dunbar joins the ancestors in Dayton, Ohio,
        at the age of 33.   He nonetheless produced three novels
        (including "The Sport of the Gods"), three books of verse, three
        collections of short stories, two unpublished  plays, and lyric
        pieces set to music by Will Marion Cook.

1944 - Alice Walker is born In Eatonton, Georgia.  Best known for "The
        Color Purple," which will win the American Book Award and the
        Pulitzer Prize, she  will also write a variety of other
        critically praised and award-winning works including poetry and
        children's books and edit a book on Zora Neale Hurston, whom
        she will credit as her role model.

1944 - John Rozelle is born in St. Louis, Missouri.  He will become an
        artist and professor at the Art Institute of Chicago.  His work
        reflects his self identification as an "African American
        sentinel,"  or visual historian, guide, and advocate of
        contemporary African American culture.

1951 - Dennis "DT" Thomas is born.  He will become a rhythm and blues
        musician with the group, 'Kool & the Gang.'

1953 - Gary Franks is born in Waterbury, Connecticut.  In 1990, he will
        be elected to Congress from Connecticut's 5th District and
        become the first African American Republican congressman since
        Oscar De Priest left office in 1934.

1962 - Jamaica signs an agreement with Great Britain to become independent.

1964 - Arthur Ashe, Jr. becomes the first African American on a United
        States Davis Cup Team.

1964 - A speech by U.S. Representative Martha Griffiths in Congress, on
        sex discrimination, results in civil rights protection for women
        being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

1970 - Alonzo Mourning is born.  He will become a basketball star at
        Georgetown University and will go on to play center for the NBA
        Miami Heat.

1971 - Satchel Paige becomes the first African American elected to
        professional baseball's Hall of Fame for his career in the Negro
        Leagues.

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