* Today in Black History - January 21 * 1830 - The African American population in Portsmouth, Ohio is forcibly deported by order of city officials. 1913 - Fanny M. Jackson Coppin joins the ancestors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was a pioneering educator and missionary and the first African American woman to graduate from an American college (Oberlin, 1865). Coppin State College (now University) in Baltimore, Maryland will be named after her. 1938 - Jack and Jill of America, Inc. is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by Marion Turner Stubbs Thomas. Dedicated to providing educational, cultural, civic, and social programs for African American youth, Jack and Jill will grow to have 180 chapters nationwide. 1941 - Richard "Richie" Pierce Havens is born in Brooklyn, New York. He will grow up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant community, the eldest of nine children. He will become a folk singer, influenced in his early days by Nina Simone. It will be as a live performer, that he will first earn widespread notice. Richie will play the 1966 Newport Folk Festival, the 1967 Monterey Jazz Festival, the January 1968 Woody Guthrie Memorial Concert at Carnegie Hall, the December 1968 Miami Pop Festival, the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival, and of course, the 1969 Woodstock festival in upstate New York. He will join the ancestors on April 22, 2013 after succumbing to a heart attack. 1950 - Leslie Sebastien Charles in born in Fyzabad, Trinidad. He will emigrate to England at the age of eight and will later become a popular singer known as "Billy Ocean." He will release hits such as "Suddenly," "Caribbean Queen," "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car," "When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going" (which was featured in the movie, "The Jewel Of The Nile"), and "To Make You Cry." 1963 - Akeem Abdul Olajuwon is born in Lagos, Nigeria. He will become one of five boys born to his parents with one sister. He will come to the United States and play collegiate basketball for the University of Houston. He will be selected by the Houston Rockets in the first round (first pick overall) of the 1984 NBA Draft. After twelve years of play in the NBA, he will be selected in 1996 as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Olajuwon will add a "H" to his first name on 3/9/1991 and become an United States citizen on 4/2/1993. The University of Houston will retire his jersey, # 34, on 2/12/97. 1964 - Carl T. Rowan is named director of the U.S. Information Agency, the highest position ever held by an African American to date. By virtue of his position, he also becomes the first African American to sit on the National Security Council. 1982 - Blues guitar singer B.B. King donates his entire record collection to the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture. The collection includes over 7,000 rare blues records he played when he worked as a disc jockey in Memphis. Born Riley B. King, he called himself the "Beale Street Blues Boy," later shortened to "B.B." B.B. King is considered one of the most influential blues musicians in history. 1984 - Singer Jackie Wilson joins the ancestors after remaining semi-comatose for nine years after suffering a massive heart attack in 1975. 1987 - The Coasters, Bo Diddley, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, B. B. King, Clyde McPhatter, Smokey Robinson, Big Joe Turner, Muddy Waters, Jackie Wilson and T-Bone Walker are inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 1990 - Quincy Jones is awarded the French Legion of Honor for his contributions to music as a trumpeter, composer, arranger, and record producer. ______________________________________________________________ Munirah Chronicle is edited by Mr. Rene' A. Perry "The TRUTH shall make you free" E-mail: <[log in to unmask]> Archives: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/Munirah.html http://blackagenda.com/cybercolonies/index.htm _____________________________________________________________ To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]> In the E-mail body place: Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name ______________________________________________________________ Munirah(TM) is a trademark of Information Man. Copyright 1997 - 2016, All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with The Black Agenda.