*             Today in Black History - November 26          *

 

1866 - Rust College is founded in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

 

1872 - Macon B. Allen is elected judge of the Lower Court of 

            Charleston, South Carolina.  Allen, the first African 

            American lawyer, becomes the second African American 

            to hold a major judicial position and the first 

            African American with a major judicial position on 

            the municipal level.

 

1883 - Sojourner Truth, women's rights advocate, poet, and 

            freedom fighter, joins the ancestors in Battle Creek, 

            Michigan.

 

1890 - Savannah State College is founded in Savannah, Georgia. 

 

1968 - O.J. Simpson is named Heisman Trophy winner for 1968. 

            A running back for the University of Southern 

            California, Simpson amassed a total of 3,187 yards in 

            18 games and scored 33 touchdowns in two seasons. He 

            will play professional football with the Buffalo Bills 

            and the San Francisco 49ers and be equally well known 

            as a sportscaster and actor.  

          

1970 - Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. the first African American 

            general in the U.S military, joins the ancestors at 

            the age of 93 in Chicago, Illinois.

 

1970 - Charles Gordone is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his 

            play, "No Place To Be Somebody."

 

1970 - Painter, Jacob Lawrence is awarded the Spingarn Medal 

            "in tribute to the compelling power of his work which 

            has opened to the world...a window on the Negro's 

            condition in the United States" and "in salute to his 

            unswerving commitment" to the Black struggle.

 

1986 - Scatman Crothers, actor, who is best known for his role 

            as "Louie" on TV's "Chico & the Man", joins the 

            ancestors at the age of 76.


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