*                 Today in Black History - January 6                 *

 

1773 - "Felix," a Boston slave, and others petition Massachusetts

            Governor Hutchinson for their freedom.  It is the first of a

            record eight similar petitions filed during the Revolutionary 

            War.

 

1831 - The World Anti-Slavery Convention opens in London, England.

 

1832 - William Lloyd Garrison founds the New England Anti-Slavery

            Society at the African Meeting House in Boston, Massachusetts, 

            where he issues the society's "Declaration of Sentiments" from 

            the Meeting House pulpit.

 

1882 - Thomas Boyne receives the Congressional Medal of Honor for

            bravery in two New Mexico battles while a sergeant in Troop C,

            9th U.S. Calvary.

 

1906 - Benedict Wallet Vilakazi is born in South Africa.  He will become

            a pre-apartheid Zulu poet, novelist, and educator.

 

1929 - Wilbert Harrison is born.  He will become a singer and will be 

            best known for his recordings "Kansas City," and "Let's Work 

            Together." 

 

1937 - Doris Troy is born.  She will become a rhythm and blues singer

            best known for her song "Just One Look."

 

1966 - Harold R. Perry becomes the second African American Roman 

            Catholic bishop since the U.S. was founded and the first in the 

            20th century.

 

1971 - Cecil A. Partee is elected president pro tem of the Illinois 

            State Senate.  He is the first African American to hold this 

            position.

 

1984 - Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Robert N.C. Nix, Jr., is

            inaugurated as Chief Justice.  The Philadelphia native, former

            deputy attorney general of the state, and thirteen-year veteran

            of the Court, is the first African American to head a state 

            Supreme Court.

 

1989 - Elizabeth Koontz joins the ancestors at the age of 69.  She was a 

            noted educator and the first African American president of the 

            National Education Association.  She also had been director of 

            the Women's Bureau in the U.S. Department of Labor.

 

1993 - Jazz great, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, joins the ancestors in

            Englewood, New Jersey at the age of 76.  He had played actively 

            until early 1992.


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