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1865 - The first African American major in the United States Army is a
physician, Dr. Martin Robinson Delany.
1894 - Congress repeals the Enforcement Act, which makes it easier for
some states to disenfranchise African American voters.
1925 - Marcus Garvey is sent to federal prison in Atlanta, Georgia for
mail fraud in connection with the sale of stock in his Black
Star Line. His prosecution was vigorously advocated by several
prominent African American leaders, including Robert Sengstacke
Abbott and others. Garvey was railroaded because of the power
he had amassed over the African American population of America.
1925 - Students stage a strike at Fisk University to protest the policies
of the white administration at the school.
1944 - Harry S. McAlpin of the "Daily World" in Atlanta, Georgia, is the
first African American journalist accredited to attend White House
press conferences.
1965 - Dr. Joseph B. Danquah, Ghanaian political leader, joins the ancestors.
He had been the leader of the United Gold Coast Convention, a
political body which had pressed the British for a gradual
relinquishing of colonial rule.
1968 - Gary Coleman is born in Zion, Ohio. He will become a child actor
portraying "Arnold" in the television series, "Different Strokes,"
which aired from 1978 to 1986. He will join the ancestors on May 28,
2010.
1968 - Highway Patrol Officers kill three South Carolina State University
students during a demonstration in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
Students are protesting against a whites-only Orangeburg bowling alley.
1970 - Alonzo Harding Mourning, Jr. is born in Chesapeake, Virginia. He will
become a basketball star at Georgetown University and will go on to play
for the NBA Miami Heat. He will be praised for his courage for making a
comeback after undergoing a kidney transplant and years later winning his
first NBA Championship with the Miami Heat in 2006. Prior to the Heat, he
will play for the Charlotte Hornets and New Jersey Nets.
1972 - Josh Gibson & Buck Leonard are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers scores 27 points while
leading his team to a 111-109 victory over the Boston Celtics. Abdul-Jabbar
passes Wilt Chamberlain's NBA career record of 12,682 field goals.
1986 - Oprah Winfrey becomes the first African American woman to host a nationally
syndicated talk show.
1986 - 5' 7" Spud Webb, of the Atlanta Hawks, wins the NBA Slam Dunk Competition.
1990 - CBS News suspends resident humorist Andy Rooney for racial comments he
supposedly made to a gay magazine, comments Rooney denies making.
1995 - The U.N. Security Council approves sending 7,000 peacekeepers to Angola to
cement an accord ending 19 years of civil war.
1997 - At the 28th NAACP Image Awards, "A Time to Kill" wins the Outstanding Motion
Picture award.
2000 - Edna Griffin, an Iowa civil-rights pioneer best known for integrating lunch
counters, joins the ancestors at the age of 90. In 1948, Griffin led the fight
against Katz Drug Store in downtown Des Moines, which refused to serve blacks
at its lunch counter. Griffin staged sit-ins, picketed in front of the store
and filed charges against the store's owner, Maurice Katz, who was fined. The
Iowa Supreme Court then enforced the law which made it illegal to deny service
based on race. She organized Iowans to attend the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s
1963 march on Washington, D.C., and helped start the former radio station KUCB.
On May 15, 1999, Des Moines' mayor proclaimed "Edna Griffin Day." On February 5,
2000, Griffin will be inducted into the Iowa African American Hall of Fame.
2015 - Ivory Coast wins the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations football championship.
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