* Today in Black History - November 4 *
1872 - Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback is elected as a U.S.
congressman from Louisiana.
1872 - Three African Americans are elected to major offices in
Louisiana elections: C.C Antoine, lieutenant governor; P.G.
Deslonde, secretary of state; W.B. Brown, superintendent of
public education.
1879 - T. Elkins receives a patent on the refrigeration apparatus.
1953 - Hulan Jack becomes first African American Manhattan Borough
President in New York City.
1958 - World renowned opera singer, Shirley Verrett, makes her debut
in New York City.
1959 - Ernie Banks, Chicago Cubs shortstop, wins the National League
MVP.
1969 - Howard N. Lee and Charles Evers are elected the first African
American mayors of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Fayette,
Mississippi respectively.
1971 - Elgin Baylor announces his retirement from the Los Angeles
Lakers. After 14 years in the NBA, Baylor had scored 23,149
points, the third highest in the league, and was the fifth-
highest career rebounder.
1978 - William Howard Jr. is elected president of the National Council
of Churches, at the age of 32.
1982 - Rayford Logan joins the ancestors in Washington, DC. He was an
educator, historian, and author of numerous books on African
Americans, including the "Dictionary of American Negro Biography."
Among his honors was a 1980 NAACP Spingarn Medal.
1988 - Bill and Camille Cosby make a $20 million gift to Spelman
College. In his remarks to newly inaugurated President Johnetta
B. Cole, Cosby states, "I want Johnetta Cole to understand the
love that Camille and I have for this college, the love we have
for women who, in spite of odds against them, come to this
school to challenge themselves, to challenge the school, then to
challenge what we call 'the outside world.'"
1988 - The Martin L. King, Jr. Federal Building is dedicated in Atlanta,
Georgia. It is the first federal building in the nation to bear
the name of the slain civil rights leader.
1999 - Daisy Bates, who is best known for counseling the "Little Rock
Nine," joins the ancestors at the age of 84. The "Little Rock
Nine" were the students who broke the color barrier at all-white
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957, Her
leadership helped to inch America toward desegregated schools.
She had dedicated her entire life to service in the civil rights
struggle.
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