*  Today in Black History - February 8  *

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.

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