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Black History Today for February 10th:

1787- Georgia’s House of Assembly named William Few, Abraham Baldwin, William Pierce, Georgie Walton, William Houston, and Nathaniel Pendleton as Georgia’s commissioners to the Philadelphia constitutional convention.

1854- Joseph Charles Price, founder and first president of Livingstone College (Salisbury, NC), was born on this day in Elizabeth City, NC. He rose to fame and world renown as a scholar, Christian Gospel Preacher, orator, and shining example of selflessness in devotion to people.

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.

1907- Civil rights activist and politician Grace Towns Hamilton was born in Atlanta, GA. She made her most lasting mark by becoming the first African-American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly in 1965. She served in Georgia House of Representatives until 1984.

1927- Attorney Ronald Brown was elected national chairman of the Democratic Party and became the first African American to hold the post. Brown was later appointed Secretary of Commerce under the Clinton administration in 1994. Also on this day, Opera singer Mary Leontyne Price was born in Laurel, MS.

1946- Georgia-born Jackie Robinson, major league baseball’s first black player, married Rachel Isum.

1966- Andrew Brimmer becomes the first African-American governor of the Federal Reserve Board when he is appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

1992- American biographer, scriptwriter, author Alex Haley (who became famous with the publication of the novel ROOTS), passed away on this day at the age of 70.

(Information courtesy of blackfacts.com)