This Week In Black History

This Week In Black History 

February 3-9th 

Sunday 

February 3rd 

1886 

First Negro Baseball League Founded ~ The Southern of Colored Base Ballists was a Negro baseball league. 10 teams comprised of this team. 

Monday

February 3rd

2006

Warren Moon ~  becomes the first black quarterback to be inducted in the National Football League Hall of Fame 

Tuesday

February 5th

1994 

Byron de la Beckwith is convicted of Medgar Evers' murder~. Medgar Evers was an African- American civil rights activist working to help desegregate the University of Mississippi. He was assassinated in his driveway by Beckwith on June 12th 1963. After 30 years of unsuccessful convictions, in 1994 Beckwith was convicted after Evers' body had been exhumed. 

Wednesday 

February 6th

1867

Peabody Fund is Established~ 

named after George Peabody, fund is viewed to be one of the first philanthropic efforts, created in order to provide money for scholarships, constructions, endowments, and teacher and vocational education to newly freed slaves. 

Thursday 

February 7th

1965

Chris Rock is born~ Chris Rock started his career doing stand up comedy and quickly moved to becoming a cast member with Saturday Night Live in the 1990's. Through his popular stand up acts and appearances in movies he has built up a legacy for himself and was even voted 5th greatest stand up of all time by Comedy Central and the 9th greatest stand up comedian on the UK's Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand Ups.  He is known as a comedian, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. 

Friday

February 8th

1968

3 South Carolina State Students~ are killed during a segregation protest in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Also known as the Orangeburg Massacre, 3 men and 21 other protesters were wounded when South Carolina Highway Patrol officers began firing into a crowd of protesters who were protesting segregation. While the federal government did charge the patrolmen for using excessive force, they were all acquitted. 

Saturday

February 9th



1995
Bernard A Harris~ becomes the first African American astronaut to take a spacewalk. This occurred on his second mission which was also the first of the Russian-American space program.