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From: "Denise Johnson" <>
Subject: [AL-AfricaAmer-L] Fw: Today in Black History - January 8
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 18:51:56 -0500


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From: Bennie J McRae Jr. <>
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Date: Friday, January 08, 1999 4:36 PM
Subject: Today in Black History - January 8

>* Today in Black History - January 8 *
>
>1811 - A slave rebellion begins 35 miles outside of New Orleans,
> Louisiana. U.S. troops will be called upon to put down the
> uprising of over 400 slaves, which will last three days.
>
>1837 - Fanny M. Jackson is born a slave in Washington, DC. She will
> become the first African American woman college graduate in the
> United States when she graduates from Oberlin College in 1865.
> After graduation, she will become a teacher at the Institute for
> Colored Youths in Philadelphia. In 1869, she will become the
> first African American woman to head an institution of higher
> learning when she is made Principal of the Institute. In the
> fall of 1881, Fanny will marry the Rev. Levi Jenkins Coppin, a
> minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The marriage
> will open a wealth of missionary opportunities for Fanny. When
> her husband is made Bishop of Cape Town, South Africa, Fanny
> will accompany him and travel thousands of miles organizing
> mission societies. In 1926, a facility for teacher training in
> Baltimore, Maryland will be named Fanny Jackson Coppin Normal
> School in her honor. The school is known today as Coppin State
> College.
>
>1867 - Overriding President Andrew Johnson's veto, Congress passes
> legislation giving African Americans in the District of Columbia
> the right to the vote.
>
>>From Munirah Chronicle <>
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