* Today in Black History - November 24 *
1874 - Stephen A. Swails is re-elected president pro tem of the
South Carolina State Senate.
1874 - Robert B. Elliott is elected Speaker of the lower house
of the South Carolina legislature.
1880 - Southern University is established in New Orleans,
Louisiana.
1880 - More than 150 delegates from Baptist Churches in eleven
states organize the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention
of the United States at a meeting in Montgomery,
Alabama. The Rev. William H. McAlphine is elected
president.
1883 - Edwin Bancroft Henderson is born in Washington, DC. He will
become a pioneering physical education instructor,
coach, and organizer of the Negro Athletic Association,
and the Colored Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association. He
is widely recognized as the "Grandfather of Black Basketball,"
introduced basketball in Washington, D.C. in 1904 to
African Americans on a wide scale, organized basis. Given
that African American players dominate the game of basketball
today, it seems difficult to overstate the importance of the
role that he played in basketball history. Inducted into the
Black Sports Hall of Fame in 1974, he will be widely
considered "the Father of Black Sports." He will join the
ancestors on February 3, 1977.
1935 - Ronald Vernie Dellums is born in Oakland, California. He
will become a Berkeley city councilman, where he will be
a vocal champion for minority and disadvantaged
communities. In 1970, he will stage a successful
campaign for the 9th district seat in the U.S. House of
Representatives. Among his leadership roles will be
Chairman of the District of Columbia Committee. From 1971 to
1998, he will be elected to thirteen terms as a Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from Northern California's 9th
Congressional District, after which he will work as a lobbyist
in Washington D.C. He will serve as Oakland's forty-eighth
(and third African-American) mayor from January 8, 2007 to
January 3, 2011.
1938 - Oscar Robertson is born in Charlotte, Tennessee. He will
attend the University of Cincinnati, where he will be a
two-time NCAA Player of the Year and three-time All-
American. He will go on to play for fourteen years in
the NBA (Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks) and earn
All-NBA honors 11 times and lead the Royals and the Bucks
to ten playoff berths. Robinson, along with Lew Alcinder
(Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), will lead the Bucks to their only
NBA Championship. Robertson will conclude his career
with 26,710 points (25.7 per game), 9,887 assists (9.5
per game) and 7,804 rebounds (7.5 per game). He will be
voted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1979, following
his retirement in 1974 and be voted one of "The 50
Greatest Players in NBA History."
2015 - Baseball legend Willie Mays and the late Shirley Chisholm,
the first African American woman elected to the United
States' Congress, are honored with the nation's highest
civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
President Barack Obama will bestow the awards at a White
House ceremony.
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