* Today in Black History - January 19 * 1918 - John H. Johnson is born in Arkansas City, Mississippi. He will become the founder and president of Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., the most prosperous African American publishing company in America. His company will publish "Negro Digest"(his first), "Ebony," "Jet," "Black Star," "Black World" and "Ebony Jr." magazines. He will receive numerous awards, including the Horatio Alger Award, the NAACP Spingarn Medal and the National Newspaper Publishers Association's Henry Johnson Fisher Award for outstanding contributions to publishing. 1952 - The PGA Tournament Committee votes to allow African American golfers to compete in sanctioned golf tournaments. 1959 - In a letter to her mother shortly before the opening of her first play, "A Raisin in the Sun," Lorraine Hansberry says "Mama, it is a play that tells the truth about people Negroes and life and I think it will help a lot of people to understand how we are just as complicated as they are-- and just as mixed up--but above all, that we have among our miserable and downtrodden ranks--people who are the very essence of human dignity. That is what, after all the laughter and tears, the play is supposed to say." 1970 - The California state board of regents fires Angela Davis from her teaching position at the University of California at Los Angeles for being a communist. This will be done at the urging of then Governor Ronald Reagan. Her dismissal will be overturned later by the courts, but the board of regents will refuse to renew her contract at the end of the 1969-1970 academic year. 1983 - In its "State of Black America" annual report, the National Urban League warns that the recession had disproportionately hurt African Americans: "A major question facing the nation in 1983 is whether the inevitable restructuring of the American economy will include Black people." ______________________________________________________________ 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> Info: <http://www.code1.com/cybercolonies/index.htm> ______________________________________________________________ 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 2003, All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with CODE One Communications.