* Today in Black History - January 2 *
1800 - Members of the Free Black Commission of Philadelphia petitions
Congress to abolish slavery.
1831 - The "Liberator" is published for the first time. An abolitionist
newspaper, it is started by William Lloyd Garrison.
1837 - The first National Negro Congress is held in Washington, DC.
1872 - The Mississippi legislature meets and elects John R. Lynch as the
Speaker of the House, at the age of twenty-four.
1898 - Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander is born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. She will become the second African American woman
to receive a Ph.D. in the United States, and the first woman to
receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law
School. She will be the first African American woman to practice
law in Pennsylvania. She will also be the first national president
of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, serving from 1919 to 1923. She will
serve on the President's Committee on Civil Rights established by
President Harry S Truman in 1946. She will be the first African
American woman appointed as Assistant City Solicitor for the City
of Philadelphia. She and her husband will both be active in civil
rights, and in 1952 she will be appointed to the city's Commission
on Human Relations, serving through 1968. She will join the
ancestors on November 1, 1989.
1903 - President Theodore Roosevelt shuts down the U.S. Post Office in
Indianola, Mississippi, for refusing to accept its appointed
postmistress because she is an African American.
1915 - John Hope Franklin is born in Rentlesville, Oklahoma. He will
become a president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of
American Historians, the American Historical Association, and
the Southern Historical Association. He will be best known for
his work "From Slavery to Freedom," first published in 1947,
and continually updated. More than three million copies will
be sold. In the early 1950s, he will serve on the NAACP Legal
Defense Fund team led by Thurgood Marshall, and help develop
the sociological case for Brown v. Board of Education. This
case, challenging de jure segregated education in the South,
will be taken to the United States Supreme Court. In 1976, the
National Endowment for the Humanities will select him for the
Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor
for achievement in the humanities. His three-part lecture will
become the basis for his book "Racial Equality in America." He
will be appointed to the U.S. Delegation to the UNESCO General
Conference in Belgrade, Yugolavia (1980). In 1983, he will be
appointed as the James B. Duke Professor of History at Duke
University. In 1985, he will take emeritus status from this
position. During this same year, he will help to establish the
Durham Literacy Center and serve on its Board until he joins the
ancestors on March 25, 2009. In 1995, he will be awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian
honor.
1947 - Calvin Hill is born in the Turner Station neighborhood in
Dundalk, Maryland. He will be a running back with a 12 year
National Football League career from 1969 to 1981. He will play
for the Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins and Cleveland Browns.
He will be named to the Pro Bowl team 4 times (1969, 1972, 1973
and 1974). He will be the father of NBA star Grant Hill.
1957 - Sugar Ray Robinson is defeated by Gene Fullmer for the world
middleweight boxing title.
1963 - Bobby "Blue" Bland's "That's The Way Love Is" is released by
Duke Records.
1965 - The Selma, Alabama voter registration drive begins, led by the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a major effort to get
African American voters registered to vote in Alabama.
1970 - Clifton Reginald Wharton, Jr. becomes the first African American
president of Michigan State University and the first African
American president of a major American university in the
twentieth century.
1970 - Dr. Benjamin E. Mays is named the first African American
president of the Atlanta, Georgia Board of Education.
1977 - Erroll Garner, pianist and composer, joins the ancestors in Los
Angeles, California. He was considered the best-selling jazz
pianist in the world, most famous for the jazz standard "Misty."
1977 - Ellis Wilson joins the ancestors. An artist known for his
striking paintings of African Americans, his work had been
exhibited at the New York World's Fair of 1939, the Harmon
Foundation, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. Among his
best-known works are "Funeral Procession," "Field Workers," and
"To Market."
1980 - Larry Williams, rhythm and blues singer best known for "Bony
Maronie", joins the ancestors. He is found dead with a
gunshot wound to the head at the age of 45.
1981 - David Lynch, singer with The Platters, joins the ancestors at the
age of 76.
1984 - W. Wilson Goode, the son of a sharecropper, is sworn in as the
first African American mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1991 - Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC,
becoming the first African American woman to head a city of
Washington's size and prominence.
2016 - Dr. Frances Cress Welsing joins the ancestors after succumbing to
complications of a stroke at the age of 80. She was an afrocentrist
psychiatrist who with her 1970 essay: "the Cress Theory of Color-
Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy)," offered her
interpretation on the origins of white supremacy culture in
Washington, D.C.
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