Today In History: February 14, 1760 Richard Allen, founder and the first Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), is born into slavery in Philadelphia. 1816 Richard Allen becomes the first Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. 1817 Orator, statesman, abolitionist, Frederick Douglass is born a slave in Tuckahoe, Maryland. 1833 Blacks and whites organize the American Anti-Slavery Society. 1867 Augusta Institute, later Morehouse College, is organized in Augusta, Georgia (14-25). The institution is later moved to Atlanta. 1879 Blanche K. Bruce becomes the first Black person to preside over the U.S. Senate, when he is called to the Chair on this date and again on May 4, 1880. 1936 The National Negro Congress is organized at a Chicago meeting attended by 817 delegates representing more than 500 organizations. Asa Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters is elected President of the new organization (14-16). 1939 Eleanor Roosevelt resigns from the Daughters of the American Revolution when it bars Marian Anderson from singing in Constitutional Hall. 1951 Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson wins the world middleweight championship, by scoring a 13th round TKO over Jake LaMotta in Chicago. 1965 Malcolm Xs house in East Elmhurst, N.Y., is firebombed. 1972 The Washington, D.C. home of Frederick Douglass is designated a national landmark on the 155th anniversary of his birth. 1975 Julius Erving of the New York Nets scores 63 points in a 176-166 quadruple overtime loss to the San Diego Conquistadors. The 342 points sets an ABA record. 1982 Hundreds of voting rights marchers going from Carrollton to Montgomery march peacefully across the four-lane Edmund Pettus Bridge, where as police wielding clubs attacked participants in the Selma-to-Montgomery march. 1982 The New York State Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus met for its eleventh Legislative Weekend with 700 participants present, and listen to chairman Assemblyman Albert Vann call for more effort to increase the political power of minority groups in the state. 1996 The artist formerly known as Prince marries dancer-singer Mayte Jannell Garcia in a private ceremony at the Park Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis, MN. 1997 Mabel Fairbanks becomes the first African-American woman inducted into the United States Figure skating Associations Hall of Fame. She began skating in 1938. 1997 Rodney Slater is named Secretary of Transportation.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 23:54:54 +0000
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