* Today in Black History - February 12 *
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1793 - Congress makes it a crime to hide or protect a runaway slave
by passing the first fugitive slave law.
1865 - Henry Highland Garnet, preacher and abolitionist, becomes the
first African American to preach in the rotunda of the
Capitol to the House of Representatives. He talks about the
end of slavery. It is on the occasion of a Lincoln birthday
memorial.
1896 - Isaac Burns Murphy, considered the greatest American jockey
of all time, joins the ancestors. He was the first jockey
to win the Kentucky Derby two years in a row and became the
first jockey to win the Kentucky Derby three times. In
1955, Isaac Murphy was the first jockey voted into the
Jockey Hall of Fame at the National Museum of Racing, in
Saratoga Springs, New York.
1900 - For a Lincoln birthday celebration, James Weldon Johnson
writes the lyrics for "Lift Every Voice and Sing." With
music by his brother, J. Rosamond, the song is first sung
by 500 children in Jacksonville, Florida. It will become
known as the "Negro National Anthem."
1909 - When six African Americans were killed and 200 others driven
out of town in race riots in Springfield, Illinois in the
summer of 1908, many Americans were shocked, because they
associated such violence only with racism in the south.
Springfield was not only a northern city, but the home of
Abraham Lincoln. Three people, Mary Ovington, William E.
Walling, and Dr. Henry Moskowitz, alarmed at the
deterioration of race relations, decided to open a campaign
to oppose the pervasive discrimination against racial
minorities. They issue a call for a national conference
on "the Negro question", and for its symbolic value, they
will choose the centennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln,
February 12, 1909, as the date for the conference. Held in
New York City, it will draw an interracial group of 60
distinguished citizens, who will formulate plans for a
permanent organization devoted to fighting all forms of
racial discrimination. That organization will be the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
The NAACP will be the oldest and largest civil rights
organization in the U.S. With more than 2,200 branches
across the country, it will be in the forefront of the
struggle for voting rights, and an end to discrimination in
housing, employment, and education.
1934 - William Felton "Bill" Russell is born in Monroe, Louisiana.
He will become a star basketball player and high jumper at
the University of San Francisco. After college, he will
win a gold medal in the 1956 Olympics, as a member of the
United States basketball team. He will then play
professional basketball for the Boston Celtics for thirteen
seasons, winning eight straight NBA titles and eleven
championships. At the end of the 1965-66 season, he will
become the coach of the Boston Celtics. He will be one of
only seven players in history to win an NCAA Championship,
an NBA Championship, and an Olympic Gold Medal. He will be
inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. He will
be selected into the NBA 25th Anniversary Team in 1971 and
the NBA 35th Anniversary Team in 1980, and named as one of
the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996, one of only
four players to receive all three honors. In 2007, he will be
enshrined in the FIBA Hall of Fame. In 2009, the NBA will
announce that the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player trophy
would be named the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable
Player Award in his honor.
1958 - Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse 119-101.
1961 - Celtic Bill Russell grabs 40 rebounds to beat Warriors 136-125.
1983 - Eubie Blake joins the ancestors at the age of 100 in Brooklyn,
New York. He was one of the last ragtime pianists and
composers whose most famous songs included "I'm Just Wild
About Harry." With Noble Sissle, Blake was the composer of
the first all-African American Broadway musical, "Shuffle
Along," which opened on Broadway in 1921.
1987 - The Southern Poverty Law Center wins a judgement for wrongful death
against the United Klans of America, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
and six past and present Klansmen in the 1981 slaying of a black
man, whose body was left hanging in a tree. The verdict by the
all-white jury is awarded in a suit brought by the family of the
victim, Michael Donald, 19 years old, and the Alabama branch of
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Mr. Donald was beaten and strangled in Mobile in April, 1981 and
then hanged. 'It Won't Bring My Child Back' his mother, Beulah
Mae Donald, said at a news conference: "I'm glad justice was
done. Money don't mean a thing to me. It won't bring my child
back. But I'm glad they caught the guilty and brought them to
court because I did everything I could to help." This is an
historic $7 million verdict against the men involved in the
lynching. The verdict marks the end of the United Klans, the
same group that had beaten the Freedom Riders in 1961, murdered
civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo in 1965, and bombed Birmingham's
16th Street Baptist Church in 1963. The group is forced to turn
over its headquarters to Beulah Mae Donald, and two additional
Klansmen were convicted of criminal charges.
2009 - At the 40th NAACP Image Awards, "The Secret Life of Bees" wins
the Outstanding Motion Picture award.
2012 - Zambia defeats Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in the Africa Cup of
Nations.
2017 - Al Jarreau joins the ancestors at the age of 76 after succumbing to
respiratory failure. He had announced his retirement just two days
prior to his transition.
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