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var tips=new Array()
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var tiptitle='<b><font color="#FFcc00"> - Black History Fact of the Day - </font></b><br>'

//Configure the below array to hold the 31 possible tips of the month
tips[1]='1845.  Macon B. Allen passes the bar in Maine becoming the first African American attorney to be licensed.'
tips[2]='1855.  Josephine Allensworth is born in Bowling Green, KY. With her husband, she will found the black town of Allensworth, CA.'
tips[3]='1963.  Birmingham, Alabama, police under Eugene `Bull` Connor attack black children protesting for civil rights with dogs and fire hoses.'
tips[4]='1898.  Septima Poinsette Clark is born in Charleston, SC. She will become a major civil rights activist and advocate of citizenship education.'
tips[5]='1907.  Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata is born in New York. As Canada Lee, he will become an actor of note, particularly for his lead role in Orson Welles` production of Richard Wright`s Native Son.'
tips[6]='1941.  Emperor Haile Selassie returns in triumph to the capital city of Addis Ababa at the end of the war in which fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia.'
tips[7]='1909.  Reuben Crowder dies in Bowling Green, KY. As Ernest Hogan he was a major composer, musician, and tent show entertainer.'
tips[8]='1951.  The New York Branch of the NAACP honors entertainer Josephine Baker for her work against racism.'
tips[9]='1951.  The New York Branch of the NAACP honors entertainer Josephine Baker for her work against racism.'
tips[10]='1865.  Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomatox Court House, VA. Union victory in the Civil War means the preservation of the United States and the end of slavery.'
tips[11]='1865.  Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomatox Court House, VA. Union victory in the Civil War means the preservation of the United States and the end of slavery.'
tips[12]='1865.  Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomatox Court House, VA. Union victory in the Civil War means the preservation of the United States and the end of slavery.'
tips[13]='1870.  The American Anti-Slavery Society disbands, believing its work is done.'
tips[14]='1898.  Paul Robeson, the future singer, actor, and black activist, is born in Princeton, NJ.'
tips[15]='1911.  The Negro Society for Historical Research is founded by Arthur Schomburg, John E. Bruce, and others.'
tips[16]='1895.  Alberta Hunter, the future blues singer and composer, is born in Memphis, TN.'
tips[17]='1897.  Lucille Bogan is born in Amory, MS. Also known as Bessie Jackson, she will record such blues songs as `Down in Boogie Alley` and `War Time Man Blues.`'
tips[18]='1905.  Clara `Mother` Hale is born in Philadelphia. She will create in Harlem a nursing home for crack babies.'
tips[19]='1911.  Augusta Baker is born in Baltimore, MD. She will become the pioneering childrens storyteller at New York Public Library.'
tips[20]='1933.  Hall Johnson`s Run Little Chillun opens, the first black folk opera by a black composer.'
tips[21]='1770.  Crispus Attucks, an escaped slave, is shot and killed by a British soldier on Boston`s King Street during a public demonstration protesting colonial rule. He is the first to fall in the American Revolution.'
tips[22]='1897.  The American Negro Academy, the first national black scholarly society, is founded in Washington, DC under the leadership of Alexander Crummell.'
tips[23]='1920.  Leontine T.C. Kelly is born in Washington, DC. She will be the first black woman ordained a bishop in the United Methodist Church, a largely white denomination.'
tips[24]='1985.  Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights activist, is honored by the U.S. government which issues a postage stamp with her picture.'
tips[25]='1997.  Desi Giles, an African American, receives death threats after playing Jesus in a Union City, NJ production called `Passion Play.`'
tips[26]='1653.  The town council of New Amsterdam, now New York, approves the construction of a protective city wall and orders it built by slaves of the West India Company. The space is now known as Wall Street.'
tips[27]='1903.  Bertha `Chippie` Hill is born in Charleston, SC. She will become one of the great urban blues singers.'
tips[28]='1912.  Sam `Lightnin` Hopkins is born in Centerville, TX. He will be a major blues guitarist.'
tips[29]='1920.  The American Legion is founded in Paris for veterans of World War I. African Americans are excluded from membership.'
tips[30]='1929.  Cecil Taylor, the future pianist and composer, is born in New York.'
tips[31]='1938.  Emilio Cruz is born in New York. He will become a painter both of figurative and abstract art.'

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