BLACK FACTS: HBCUs

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February 26, 2002

1869
Fifteenth Amendment guaranteeing the right to vote sent to the states for ratification.

1870
Wyatt Outlaw, Black leader of the Union League in Alamance County, N.C., Lynched.

1877
At a conference in the Wormley Hotel in Washington, representatives of Rutherford B. Hayes and representatives of the South negotiated agreement which paved the way for the election of Hayes as president and the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.

1884
Birthday of Congressman James E. O'Hara of North Carolina. First elected March 4, 1833, O'Hara served two terms, the second ending March 3, 1887.

1926
Carter G. Woddson started Negro History Week. This week would later become Black History Month.

1926
Theodore "Georgia Deacon" Flowers wins middleweight boxing title.

1928
Singer "Fats" Domino born.

1930
The Green Pastures opened at mansfield Theater.

1933
Godfrey Cambridge, actor and comedian born in New York.

1946
Race riot, Columbia, Tennessee. Two killed and ten wounded.

1964
On this day, the Kentucky boxer known to all as Cassius Clay, changed his name to Muhammad Ali as he accepted Islam and rejected Christianity. "I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and in peace...I'm not a Christian anymore."

1965
Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, died of injuries reportedly inflicted by officers in Marion, Alabama.

1985
On this day at the Grammy Awards ceremony, African-American
musicians won awards in several categories. Lionel Richie's
'Can't Slow Down' won best album of 1984. Tina Turner's
'What's Love Got to Do With It' took the best record slot
and earned her the title Best Female Pop Vocalist. The Pointer
Sisters won best Pop Group for 'Jump.'