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Burial site to be preserved as memorial 27th _ Lerone Bennett, Jr.
28th - Mississippi.
29th - 24th Infantry.
30th - Dr. William Hinton.
31st - Fred Williamson.
1st - 1951, 1953, 1955.
2nd - Chester Himes.
1 .:..._ Bl ck m n;
d i r, nd explorer
brought to Am rica,
1 2 -S h Vaugh i born
in w rk, .J On dare, h
will enter a 19 3 mateur con­
t t at the Apollo Th tre in
Harlem And be hired by E rl
"Fatha" Hin a ult of her
performance. She will begin
cording in 1945, be considered
one of the fin t j zz vocalis
and rn the nickname "The Di­
vine One."
19 0 - Of the 116,000
Blacks in prof; ional positions,
ov r two thrids we chers or
ministers.
1951 - The U ni versity of
orth Carolina admitted its
first Black tudent.
19 9 - Black Academy of
Arts and Letters we estab­
lished in Boston.
1979 - Earvin "Magic"
Johnson lead Michigan State to
NCAA title, earning MVP hon­
ors.
What years did Roy Campan­
ella win the National League
MVPaward.?
In what taz« i Alcorn A(iM
Uniu ity loca�d'
1815 - N poleon b nned
lave trade.
1817 • 1872 - Robert Dun­
eanson, a noted landscape artist,
major works in located in Cin­
cinnati Art Mum.
1865 - John Rock became
the first Black to practice law
befbre the U.S. Supreme Court.
1898 - W.J. Ballow patent
combined hat rack and table.
1982 - Freshman Michael
Jordan hit the winning hot as
UNC won the NCAA basketball
championship over Georgetown.
1870 - Thorn Peterson be­
came first Black to vote in the
U.S. fter the 15th Amendment
ratification.
1880 - Birthday of Univer­
I Life' founder J.E. Walker.
1947 - Charles S. Johnson,
was first Black president ofFis
Unive ity.
1977 - Af) 'can American
Drama Company was founded
in U rbana, Illinois.
1988 - Toni Morrison wins
the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved, a
powerful novel of a runaway
slave who murders her daughter
rather than see her raised in
slavery.
What was the last all-Black
army unitt
Who is considered the "resi­
dent historian" of the Johnson
Publishing Company?
HENRY TANNER
What was folklorist Hukkie
Ledbetter's nicknamei
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1900 - Painter Henry
Owassa Tanner won Silver
Medal at Paris Exposition.
1950 - Death of Charles
Drew, developer of blood
plasma.
1961- The American Dental
Association directed its affili­
ated societies to end discrimina­
tory membership requirements.
1964 - Hartford Stage Com­
pany opened with Othello, fea­
turing Clayton Corbin in the
title role.
1796 - Toussaint L'Ouver­
ture commanded French Forces
at St. Domingo.
1921 - Swan Record Com­
pany was the first Black to or­
ganized and own record
company.
1991 - Betsey Brown, by
Ntozake Shange and Emily
Mann premiered at the McCar­
ter Theatre Center for the Per­
forming Arts, Princeton, N.J.;
Manhattan Theatre Club pro­
duced Leslie Lee's Black Eagles,
a play about the Tuskegee Air­
men, the country's first Black
pilot unit.
Who is the actor known as the
"Hammer'S
Women basketball player. 1924. E. Elcha.
Eddl Elcha photographed Black life In New York In the early decade
of the 1900 , He focu ed especially on the nightclubs, choru lines, and
entertainer of Harl m,
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