From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: This Week in Black History (1/1 - 1/10 1993)
Date: 4 Jan 93 11:31:02
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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Today is Monday January 4, 1992. 

This includes January 1 - 3 as well.

(My comments are in brackets:  [])

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January 1    Last Day of Kwanzaa:  Imani (faith)
             Emancipation Proclamation 1863
             African Benevolent Society (Education) 1808
             Haiti Independence Day 1804
             Democratic Republic of Sudan Independence Day 1956

January 2    William Lloyd Garrison began publishing _The Liberator_,
                Abolitionist newspaper, in Boston Mass 1831
             John Hope Franklin, historian, born 1915

January 3    William Tucker, first Black child born in America, baptized 
                in Jamestown 1624

January 4    The first Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball
                League, organized 1920
             Dr. Melvin H Evans becomes first elected governor of the
                Virgin Islands 1971

Jaunary 5    George Washington Carver, scientist, dies (1864 - 1943)

January 6    The World Anti-Slavery Convention opens in London 1831
             Harold R Perry becomes second Black Roman Catholic bishop
                in US History 1966

January 7    W.B. Purvis patented the fountain pen 1890
             Marian Anderson becomes first Black person to appear in
             Metropolitan Opera House in Verdi's Masked Ball 1955

January 8    Fannie M. Jackson, pioneer and educator, first Black woman college
                graduate in US born (1836 - 1913)
             Col Charles Young, first Black to acheive that rank in
                the US Army dies in Lagos, Nigeria 1922

January 9    Fisk University founded in Nashville Tennessee 1866
             Paul Lawrence Dunbar, first poet to use Black dialect in
                his verse, dies (1872 - 1906)

January 10   James Varicick, first A.M.E. Zion Bishop, born 1768
             Edward Brooke, Mass. enator takes office 1967
             Lincoln declares Blcks should be educated in D.C.
             George Washington Carver, scientist and inventor of over
                500 products from the peanut, pecan, sweet potato,
                wood, clay and cotton, born (1865 - 1943) [Maybe.
                Carver was apparently born a slave, so we don't know
                even the year of his birth.  It seems to have been
                between 1858 and 1965.]

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