* Today in Black History - November 21 *
1654 - Richard Johnson, a free African American, is granted 550
acres in Northampton County, Virginia.
1784 - James Armistead is cited by French General Lafayette for
his valuable service to the American forces in the
Revolutionary War. Armistead, who was born into slavery
24 years earlier, had worked as a double agent for the
Americans while supposedly employed as a servant of
British General Cornwallis.
1865 - Shaw University is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1893 - Granville T. Woods, inventor, receives a patent for the
"Electric Railway Conduit."
1904 - Coleman Randolph Hawkins is born in St. Joseph, Missouri. He
will be one of the first prominent jazz musicians on the
tenor saxophone even though the instrument was not an
acknowledged jazz horn. While he is strongly associated with
the swing music and big band era, he will have a role in the
development of bebop in the 1940s. He will join the ancestors
on May 19, 1969.
1918 - Henry B. Delany is elected saffragan bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal diocese of North Carolina.
1944 - Vernon Earl "the Pearl" Monroe is born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He will become a professional basketball player
and will play for two teams, the Baltimore Bullets and the
New York Knicks, during his career in the National Basketball
Association (NBA). Both teams will retire his number. A four-
time NBA All-Star, he will retire after the 1980 season due to
serious knee injuries, which had plagued him throughout his
career. He will play 926 NBA career games, score 17,454 total
points (18.8 ppg) and dish out 3,594 assists. In 1990, he will
be enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
He will be named one of the 50 players on the NBA 50th
Anniversary All-Time Team in 1996.
1984 - TransAfrica's Randall Robinson, DC congressional delegate
Walter Fauntroy, and U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Mary
Frances Berry are arrested at a sit-in demonstration in
front of the South African Embassy in Washington, DC.
Their demonstration against apartheid will be repeated and
spread to New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and other
cities, and involve such notables as Jesse Jackson, Arthur
Ashe, Harry Belafonte, and Stevie Wonder. Their efforts
will play a large part in the passage of the Anti-Apartheid
Act of 1986, which will impose economic sanctions against
South Africa.
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