*  Today in Black History - February 26  *

1844 - James Edward O'Hara is born in New York City to an Irish
        merchant and a West Indian woman.  He will move to North
        Carolina after completing his basic education.  After studying
        law at Howard University, he will be admitted to the North
        Carolina bar and become a practicing attorney in Halifax
        county and active in state politics.  He will later become a
        two-term United States Congressman from North Carolina, serving
        in the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congress.

1870 - Wyatt Outlaw, Town Commissioner in Graham, North Carolina, joins
        the ancestors after being executed (lynched) by the "White
        Brotherhood," The Ku Klux Klan.  He was president of the Alamance
        County Union League of America (an anti Ku Klux Klan group),
        helped to establish the Republican party in North Carolina and
        advocated establishing a school for African Americans. The Klan
        will hang him from an oak tree near the Alamance County Courthouse.
        Dozens of Klansmen will be arrested for the murders of Outlaw and
        other African Americans in Alamance and Caswell Counties. Many of
        the arrested men will confess, but, despite protests by Governor
        William W. Holden, a federal judge in Salisbury will ordered them
        released.

1926 - Dr. Carter G. Woodson starts Negro History Week.  This week
        will be expanded to Black History Month in 1976.

1926 - Theodore "Tiger"(The Georgia Deacon) Flowers becomes the first
        African American middleweight champion of the world.  He will
        defeat Harry Greb in fifteen rounds to win the title in New York
        City.

1928 - Antoine "Fats" Domino is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.  He
        will be a pioneering Rhythm & Blues pianist whose hits will
        include "Ain't That A Shame" and "Blueberry Hill."

1930 - "The Green Pastures" opens on Broadway at the Mansfield Theater
        with Richard B. Harrison as "De Lawd."

1946 - A race riot in Columbia, Tennessee results in two deaths and ten
        injured persons.

1964 - Boxer Cassius Clay converts to Islam, adopting the name Muhammad
        Ali, saying, "I believe in the religion of Islam...believe in
        Allah and peace..."

1965 - During civil rights demonstrations in Selma, Alabama, that were
        designed to get the attention of the Johnson administration in
        Washington, DC, police violence erupts against the marchers. In
        an effort to protect his mother from a beating, 26 year old
        Jimmie Lee Jackson strikes a police officer.  He will join the
        ancestors after being shot and killed.  Civil rights activists,
        outraged by his death, will plan a march from the Edmund Pettus
        Bridge in Selma to Montgomery.

1966 - Andrew Brimmer becomes the first African American governor of the
        Federal Reserve Board when he is appointed by President Lyndon
        B. Johnson.

1984 - Rev. Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he referred to New York City
        as "Hymietown."

1985 - At the 27th Grammy Awards, Best Album of the Year for "Can't Slow
        Down", is presented to Lionel Richie.  Tina Turner is a big
        winner with Best Song, Best Record and Best Pop Vocal
        Performance by a Female for "What's Love Got to Do with It."

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