* Today in Black History - October 16 * 1849 - George Washington Williams is born in Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania. He will become the first major African American historian and founder of two African American newspapers, "The Commoner" in Washington, DC, and Cincinnati's "The Southern Review." 1849 - Charles L. Reason is named professor of belles-lettres and French at Central College in McGrawville, New York. William G. Allen and George B. Vashon also will teach at the predominantly white college. 1855 - More than one hundred delegates from six states hold a Black convention in Philadelphia. 1855 - John Mercer Langston, one of the first African Americans to win public office, is elected clerk of Brownhelm Township, Lorain County, Ohio. 1859 - Osborne Perry Anderson, a free man, is one of five African Americans in John Brown's raid on the United States Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. 1872 - South Carolina Republicans carry the election with a ticket of four whites and four Blacks: Richard H. Gleaves, lieutenant governor; Henry E. Hayne, secretary of state; Francis L. Cardozo, treasurer; and Henry W. Purvis, adjutant general. African Americans win 97 of the 158 seats in the General Assembly and four of the five congressional districts. 1876 - A race riot occurs in Cainhoy, South Carolina. Five whites and one African American are killed. 1895 - The National Medical Association is founded in Atlanta, Georgia. 1901 - Booker T. Washington dines at the White House with President Theodore Roosevelt and is criticized in the South. 1932 - Chi Eta Phi sorority is founded in Washington, DC. Aliene Carrington Ewell and 11 other women establish the nursing society, which will grow to 72 chapters in 22 states, the District of Columbia, and Liberia and will eventually admit both men and women. 1968 - Tommie Smith and John Carlos hold up their fists in a Black Power salute during the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City, Mexico. Their actions will come to symbolize the Black Power movement in sports and will result in their suspension from the games two days later. 1973 - Maynard Jackson becomes the first African American mayor of a major southern city when he was elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. Jackson, at the age of 35, becomes one of the youngest mayors of a major city to ever be elected. 1984 - Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as a unifying figure in the campaign to resolve the problems of apartheid in South Africa. 1990 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), joins the ancestors, after a bout with cancer, at the age of 71. 1995 - Minister Louis Farrakhan of The Nation of Islam speaks at The Million Man March in Washington, D.C., which he called for, and organized. It is known as the "Day of Atonement." 2000 - The Million Family March, called for by Minister Louis Farrakhan, is held in Washington, DC. ______________________________________________________________ Munirah Chronicle is edited by Brother Mosi Hoj "The TRUTH shall make you free" E-mail: <[log in to unmask]> Archives: <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/Munirah.html> ______________________________________________________________ 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 2001, All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with CODE One Communications.