Today in Black History 1980 - WHMM-TV in Washington, DC becomes the first African American broadcasting television station. 1972 - Blacks Elected to Congress: Sixteen Blacks were elected to Congress. Andrew Young of Atlanta was the first Black elected to Congress from the Deep South since the Reconstruction era. Also elected for the first time were Barbara Jordan (Tex.) and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (Calif.). Republican Senator Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts was overwhelmingly endorsed for a second term. 1911 - Fraternity, Omega Psi Phi, founded on the campus of Howard University 1842 - The First Fugitive Slave Case: Capture of George Latimer in Boston led to first of the fugitive slave cases which embittered North and South. Boston abolitionists raised money to purchase Latimer from his slaveholder.
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