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1914 - William Ellisworth Artis is born in Washington, North
Carolina. He will become one of the finest African American
artists of the twentieth century. His sculptures will exhibit
a strong originality and a romantic, almost spiritual appeal.
He will study sculpture as well as pottery at Augusta Savage
Studios in the early 1930s and was a part of the Harmon
Foundation Exhibit in 1933. In 1950, he will receive his
Bachelors in Fine Arts, and in 1951 his Masters in Fine Arts
from Syracuse University, where he will study with the
sculptor Ivan Mestrovic. From 1956 to 1966, he will be
Professor of Ceramics at Nebraska Teachers College after which
he will be Professor of Art at Mankato State College until
1975. During this time a joint retrospective exhibition with
his works will be held in 1971 at Fisk University. He will
also be featured in "Against the Odds," an exhibition of
African American Artists from the Harmon Foundation. His works
can also be found at Atlanta University, the Whitney Museum,
the Two Centuries of Black American Art exhibited and
collected by Fisk University, Hampton University, the North
Carolina Museum of Art, and private collectors. He will join
the ancestors on April 3, 1977 in Northport, New York.
1915 - Biologist Ernest E. Just receives the Spingarn Medal for his
pioneering research on fertilization and cell division.
1948 - President Harry S. Truman sends a message to Congress pressing
for civil rights legislation, including anti-lynching, fair
employment practices, and anti-poll tax provisions.
1952 - B.B. King's "3 O'Clock Blues" hits #1 on the U.S. Billboard's
Rhythm & Blues hit parade to become his first national hit.
1956 - Autherine J. Lucy becomes the first African American student
to attend the University of Alabama.
1956 - Seven whites and four African Americans are arrested after an all-
night civil rights sit-in at the Englewood, New Jersey city hall.
1956 - Four African American mothers are arrested after a sit-in at a
Chicago elementary school. The mothers later receive suspended
$50 fines. Protests, picketing and demonstrations continue for
several weeks against de facto segregation, double shifts and
mobile classrooms.
1971 - Ugandan army strongman Major-General Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote and
assumes full power as military head of state and forms an 18-man
cabinet to run the country. Amin, a Muslim, strengthens ties with
Arab nations and launches a genocidal program to purge Uganda's
Lango and Acholi ethnic groups. He will order all Asians to leave
the country, which will thrust Uganda into economic chaos. During
Amin's regime, about 300,000 Ugandans will join the ancestors after
being killed.
1984 - Ralph Sampson, one of the Houston Rockets 'Twin Towers', is named
Rookie of the Month in the National Basketball Association. To earn
the honor, Sampson averages 24.4 points, 12 rebounds and 2.43 blocked
shots per game during the month of January. In addition, Sampson will
become the only rookie (up to that time) to be named to the NBA's All-
Star Game.
1988 - A commemorative stamp of James Weldon Johnson is issued by the United
States Postal Service as part of its Black Heritage USA series.
1990 - In a dramatic concession to South Africa's Black majority, President F.W.
de Klerk lifts a ban on the African National Congress, and sixty other
political organizations and promises to free Nelson Mandela.
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