Because Black History happens EVERY DAY. . . we will explore other months this month since we did February last year.
JANUARY 1
1804
Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaimed independence of Haiti, the second republic in the Western Hemisphere.
1808
On this date, the international slave trade was abolished.
1831
William Lloyd Garrison published first issue of abolitionist journal,
The Liberator.
1854
Lincoln University, one of the first Black colleges, chartered as Ashmun Institute in Oxford, Pennsylvania.
1860
A law went into effect in Arkansas which prohibited the emplotyment of free blacks on boats and ships navigating the rivers of that state.
1863
President Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in rebel states with exception of thirteen parishes (including New Orleans) in Louisiana, forty-eight countries in West Virginia, seven countries (including Norfolk) in Eastern Virginia. Proclamation did not apply to slaves in Border States.
1912
Second annual report of the NAACP listed total receipts from May through December, 1911, of $10,317.43. Organization had local chapters in Chicago, Boston and New York.
1916
First issue of
Journal of Negro History published.
1956
Sudan proclaimed independent.
1960
Cameroon gains independence
1996
Picture of Rosa Parks taken by Bob Bozarth at Langston University
1997
The former prison for Nelson Mandela and many other South Africans is turned in to a museum at Robben Island.
1997
Kofi Annan of Ghana becomes first black secretary of United Nations.
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