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| January 1 NEW YEARS DAY 1863: Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation. 1889:Granville T. Woods patents automatic cutoff switch for electric circuits. |
January 2 1965: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. calls for nonviolent protest of Alabama blacks are not allowed to vote. |
January 3 1624: William Tucker, first african chidl born in America. |
January 4 1920: National Negro League started. 1926:Mary Eliza Mahoney, America's first black trained nurse, dies. 1971:The Congressional Black Caucus organized. |
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| January 5 1943: George Washington Carver, agricultural scientist, dies. |
January 6 1831: the World Anti-Slaver ocnvention opens in London. |
January 7 1890: WIlliam B. Purvis patents fountain pen. 1955: Marian Anderson debuts as first African-American to perform at Metropoliton Opera. |
January 8 1811: Charles Deslandes leads slave revolt in Louisiana. |
January 9 1866: Fisk University founded in Nashville Tennessee. |
January 10 1864: George Washington Carver, agricultural scientist, born. |
January 11 1985: Reuben V. Anderson, first African American appointed to Mississippi court. |
| January 12 1870: Ada B. Thoms, crusader for equal opportunity for blacks in nursing, born. 1948: Supreme Court rules African AMericans have right to study law at state institutions. |
January 13 1990: L. Douglas Wilder inaugurated as first African American governor (Virginia) since Reconstruction. |
January 14 1975:William T. Coleman named Secretary of Transportation. |
January 15 1929: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a major voice for civil rights in the 20th century, born. |
January 16 1978: NASA names black astronauts Maj. Frederick D. Gregory, Maj. Guion S. Bluford Jr. and Dr. Ronald E. McNair. |
January 17 1942: Three-time heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) born. |
January 18 1856: Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, pioneer heart surgeon, born. |
| January 19 1969: UCLA renames its social science buildings to honor alumnus Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, diplomat. |
January 20 1977: REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.\'S BIRTHDAY OBSERVED Patricia Roberts Harris becomes first black woman to hold a Cabinet post. |
January 21 1936: Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan born. |
January 22 1949: James Robert Gladden becomes first African American certified in orthopedic surgery. 1944: Spencer Crew appointed director of Smithsonian\'s National Museum of American History. |
January 23 1891: Dr. Daniel Hale Williams founds Provident Hospital in Chicago, the first training hospital for black doctors and nurses in the U.S. |
January 24 1865: Congress passes 13th Amendment which, on ratification, abolishes slavery. |
January 25 1851: Sojourner Truth addresses first Black Women\'s Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio. |
| January 26 1954: Dr. Theodore K. Lawless, dermatologist, awarded the Spingarn Medal for research in skin-related diseases. |
January 27 1961: Leontyne Price makes her Metropolitan Opera debut. |
January 28 1787: Free Africa Society organized in Philadelphia. 1998:Sarah "Madam C.J." Walker, first African American female millionaire, honored on U.S. postage stamp. |
January 29 1926: Violette Neatly Anderson becomes first black woman lawyer to argue a case before the Supreme Court. |
January 30 1979: Franklin Thomas named president of Ford Foundation. |
January 31 1986: August Wilson\'s Fences, starring James Earl Jones, opens at Chicago\'s Goodman Theatre. 1951: National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses formally dissolved. |