dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd* Today in Black History - January 14 *
1868 - The South Carolina constitutional convention, the first
official assembly in the western hemisphere with an African
American majority, meets in the Charleston Clubhouse with
seventy-six African American delegates and forty-eight white
delegates. Two-thirds of the African American delegates are
former slaves. A New York Herald reporter writes: "Here in
Charleston is being enacted the most incredible, hopeful, and
yet unbelievable experiment in all the history of mankind."
1868 - The North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh,
with fifteen African American and one hundred eighteen whites
in attendance.
1873 - P.B.S. Pinchback is elected to the U.S. Senate. Since he had
previously been elected to Congress, he went to Washington
with the unique distinction of being both a senator-elect and
a congressman-elect.
1874 - I.D. Shadd is elected Speaker of the Lower House of the
Mississippi legislature.
1878 - The United States Supreme court rules race separation on trains
unconstitutional with a unanimous decision.
1907 - A major earthquake occurs in Kingston, Jamaica. More than 1,000
persons join the ancestors.
1916 - Author John Oliver Killens is born in Macon, Georgia. Among
his books will be the novels "Youngblood," and "And Then We
Heard the Thunder," biographies of Denmark Vesey, John Henry,
and Aleksandr Pushkin, and the script for "Odds Against
Tomorrow," a 1959 movie starring Harry Belafonte. He will join
the ancestors on October 27, 1987.
1930 - Biologist and pioneer of cell division, Ernest E Just, is named
Vice-President of the American Zoological Society.
1940 - Horace Julian Bond is born in Nashville, Tennessee. He will be
one of several hundred students from across the South who will
found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
He will become SNCC's communications director. He will spend
over twenty years of service in the Georgia General Assembly,
after having his first elective seats denied him in the
mid-sixties. Bond will be known also for his narration of many
civil rights oriented programs, most notably, the critically
acclaimed 1987 and 1990 PBS series, "Eyes on the Prize." He
will become Chairman of the NAACP in February, 1998. He will
join the ancestors on August 15, 2015.
1948 - Carl Weathers is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known
for portraying Apollo Creed in the "Rocky" series of films. He
will also portray Jericho "Action" Jackson in "Action Jackson,"
Dillon in "Predator," Chubbs Peterson in "Happy Gilmore" and
"Little Nicky," and a fictionalized version of himself on the
comedy series "Arrested Development." He will also play in the
National Football League as linebacker for the Oakland Raiders
during the 1970-1971 seasons.
1949 - Riots occur in Durban, South Africa. The riots will be an anti-
Indian riot predominantly by Zulus targeting Indians. The riots
will resultd in the massacre of mostly poor Indians. In total, 142
people will die in the riots and another 1,087 people are injured.
It also will lead to the destruction of 58 shops, 247 dwellings
and one factory. The "Ilanga Lase Natal," Natal's leading black
African newspaper, will defend the riots and put the blame on the
targeted victims of the riots, the Indian community. Stating that
'the whole grim business was logical, simply inevitable'. The paper
will list "the following reasons for the convulsions: black-
marketeering by Indians, Indian opposition to the economic expansion
of the African, 'shacketeering' by Indian landlords, social and
racial humiliation of Africans by Indians and the differential
treatment of Indians by Europeans which gives the Indians 'not only
better rights, but a sense of snobbishness and superiority over the
Africans'."
1956 - Little Richard releases the hit recording, "Tutti Frutti".
1970 - Diana Ross and the Supremes perform their last concert together, at
the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.
1972 - "Sanford & Son" starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC TV.
1975 - William T. Coleman is named Secretary of Transportation by President
Gerald R. Ford. He is the second African American to hold a Cabinet-
level position.
1979 - After much pressure from civil rights leaders and others, President
Jimmy Carter proposes Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday become a
federal holiday.
1981 - James Frank, president of Lincoln University in Jefferson City,
Missouri, is installed as the first African American president of the
National Collegiate Athletic Association.
1987 - The National Urban League's report "State of Black America" blasts
President Reagan's policies, stating, "Black Americans enter 1987
besieged by the resurgence of raw racism, persistent economic
depression and the continue erosion of past gains."
2015 - Major floods devastate Mozambique and Malawi. 70,000 people are left
homeless and 63 people join the ancestors.
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