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Black History Today for February 10th:
1992: American biographer, scriptwriter, author who became famous with the publication of the novel ROOTS (which traces his ancestry back to Africa and covers seven American generations as they are taken slaves to the United States), Alex Haley, died on this day.
1967: The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. That amendment provided that in the case of a vice president's become president, the new president would name a new vice president, subject to confirmation by a majority vote of both houses of Congress.
1966: Andrew Brimmer becomes the first African-American Governor of the Federal Reserve Board when he is appointed by President Johnson.
1946: Georgia-born Jackie Robinson (Major League Baseball's first black player), married Rachel Isum.
1927: Opera singer, Mary Leontyne Price, was born in Laurel, MS on this day. In 1961, Price debuted with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, singing the part of Leonora in Giuseppe Verdi's II Trovatore. For her performance, she received a standing ovation that lasted forty-two minutes.
1868: Conservatives, aided by military forces, seized convention hall and established effective control over Reconstruction process in Florida. Republican conservatives drafted new constitution which concentrated political power in hands of governor and limited the impact of the Black vote.
1787: Georgia's House of Assembly named Willliam Few, Abraham Baldwin, William Pierce, Georgie Walton, William Houston, and Nathaniel Pendleton as Georgia's commissioners to the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention
