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January 9... This day in Black History... Our History... 1866 - Fisk University established. Rust College (Miss.) and Lincoln (Mo.) were also founded in 1866. 1901 - Edward Mitchell Bannister, artist, dies 1906 - Poet and novelist, Paul Laurence Dunbar, dies. 1914 - Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. was founded at Howard University. Among the founders were Langston Taylor, Leonard F. Morse and C.I. Brown. Special charter members included William F. Vincent, I.C. Scruggs and Walter F. Tebles. 1922 - Ahmed Sekou Toure, first president of Guinea, born. 1935 - Earl G. Graves, publisher of Black Enterprise magazine and entrepreneur, born 1946 - Death of poet Countee Cullen 1967 - Georgia legislature, bowing to legal decisions and national pressure, seated Rep. Julian Bond, a critic of the Vietnam War. 1989 - Time, Inc. agrees to sell NYT Cable for $420 million, to a group led by J. Bruce Llewellyn, the largest cable TV acquisition by an African American Elegba Folklore Society
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 14:00:00 +0000

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