1- Black Fact = 1961 (Jan.3) – Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. was elected Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee on this date.
2- Black Fact= 1969 – After being re-elected to a second term, Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. was seated by Congress on this date.
3- Black Fact = 1966 – Robert C. Henry assumed the office of mayor of Springfield, OH, on this date. Henry was Ohio’s first black mayor.
4- Black Fact = 1984 – The Rev. Jesse Jackson secured the release of black Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman on this date in 1984. One month earlier, Goodman was shot down over Damascus, Syria and was held hostage.
5- Black Fact = 1985- Leontyne Price, world-renowned opera singer, made her historic last performance at the Metropolitan Opera as “Aida” on this date in 1985. #theraydiotwins
6- Black Fact = 1966 – North Carolina attorney, Floyd B. McKissick, was named National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) on this date.
