* Today in Black History - February 10 *
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1868 - Republican conservatives draft a new constitution which
concentrates political power in the hands of the governor and
limits the impact of the Black vote. This is made possible by
Conservatives, aided by military forces, who seize the
convention hall and establish control over the reconstruction
process in Florida.
1927 - Mary Leontyne Violet Price is born in Laurel, Mississippi. She
will be acclaimed as one of the world's greatest operatic
talents. She will amass many operatic firsts, one of the
first African Americans to become a leading artist at the
Metropolitan Opera, being the first African American to sing
opera on network television and the first African American to
receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Among her honors
will be the NAACP's Spingarn Medal, three Emmys, and Kennedy
Center Honors. After her retirement from the opera stage in
1985, she will continue to appear in recitals and orchestral
concerts until 1997. Among her many honors and awards are the
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964), the Spingarn Medal (1965),
the Kennedy Center Honors (1980), the National Medal of Arts
(1985), the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of
Achievement (1986), numerous honorary degrees, and 19 Grammy
Awards for operatic and song recitals and full operas, and a
Lifetime Achievement Award, more than any other classical singer.
In October 2008, she was among the first recipients of the Opera
Honors by the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2019, she was
awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Boston Conservatory at
Berklee.
1939 - Roberta Cleopatra Flack is born in Black Mountain (Asheville),
North Carolina. She will begin her professional singing career
in Washington, DC. She will be the first to win the Grammy Award
for Record of the Year two consecutive times. "The First Time
Ever I Saw Your Face" won at the 1973 Grammys and "Killing Me
Softly with His Song" won at the 1974 Grammys. She will remain
the only solo artist to have accomplished this feat, and only U2,
who did it in 2001 with "Beautiful Day" and in 2002 with "Walk On",
has done it since.
1942 - Mary Lovelace O'Neal is born in Jackson, Mississippi. Educated
at Howard and Columbia universities, she will become a
professor of fine arts and head of the Art Department at
University of California at Berkeley. Academia will allow her
the freedom to become a painter who will exhibit her work
in museums in the United States, Morocco, and Chile.
1943 - Eta Phi Beta, the national business and professional sorority,
is incorporated in Detroit, Michigan. It will have chapters
throughout the United States and number among its members
civil rights activist Daisy Bates and artist Margaret T.
Burroughs.
1945 - The United States, Russia, Great Britain, and France approve a
peace treaty with Italy, under which Italy renounces all rights
and claims to Ethiopia and Eritrea.
1945 - The Chicago Defender reports that over a quarter of a million
African Americans migrated to California during the years 1942
and 1943. As the percentage of African Americans in California
increases from 1 1/2% to more than 10% of the total population,
so does the practice of racial segregation.
1971 - Bill White becomes the first African American major league
baseball announcer when he begins announcing for the New
York Yankees.
1989 - Ronald H. Brown, who had served as Jesse Jackson's campaign
manager, becomes chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, the first African American to hold the position
in either party.
1989 - Tony Robinson, originally from Jamaica, becomes Nottingham's
(Great Britain) first sheriff of African descent.
1990 - South African President, Frederik Willem de Klerk announces
that Nelson Mandela will be set free on February 11th after
27 years in prison.
1992 - Alex Haley, author of "Roots," and "Autobiography of Malcolm
X," joins the ancestors while on a lecture tour in Seattle,
Washington at the age of 70.
1992 - Mike Tyson is convicted in Indianapolis, Indiana of raping a
contestant in the Miss Black America competition (Desiree
Washington) and sentenced to six years in an Indiana prison.
1997 - O.J. Simpson is found liable for the wrongful death of his ex-
wife Nicole Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. The civil
court jury will award a judgement of $33.5 Million against him.
1998 - Dr. David Satcher is confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become
Surgeon General.
2013 - Nigeria defeats Burkina Faso 1-0 to win the football 2013 Africa
Cup of Nations.
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