*                       Today in Black History - October 10         *

 

1874 - South Carolina Republicans carry the election with a 

            reduced victory margin.  The Republican ticket is 

            composed of four whites and four Blacks.

 

1899 - J.W. Butts, inventor, receives a patent for a luggage 

            carrier.

 

1899 - I. R. Johnson patents his bicycle frame.

 

1901 - Frederick Douglass Patterson is born in Washington, DC.

            He will receive doctorate degrees from both Iowa State 

            University and Cornell University.  Dr. Patterson will 

            serve as the president of Tuskegee Institute from 1935 

            to 1955.  In 1943, he will organize a meeting of the 

            heads of Black colleges to conduct annual campaigns 

            for funds needed to help meet the operating expenses of 

            27 Black colleges and universities.  This will result

            in the formation of the United Negro College Fund. Dr. 

            Patterson will serve as its first president. 

 

1917 - Thelonious Monk is born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.  

            He will   become an innovative jazz pianist and composer 

            of 'Round Midnight.' Monk will be considered one of the

            fathers of jazz improvisation and in 1961 will be 

            featured on the cover of Time magazine, only one of 

            three jazz musicians so honored at that time.

 

1935 - George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" premieres at the 

            Alvin Theater in New York City. 

 

1946 - Ben Vereen is born in Miami, Florida.  He will become a 

            dancer and multi-faceted entertainer.

 

1953 - Gus Williams is born. He will become a professional 

            basketball player and NBA guard with the Golden State 

            Warriors, Seattle Supersonics, and Washington Bullets.

 

1957 - President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister 

            of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused 

            service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.

 

1961 - Otis M. Smith is appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court 

            and becomes the first African American on the high 

            court.

 

1978 - Congressman Ralph H. Metcalfe joins the ancestors in 

            Chicago at the age of 68.

 

1989 - South African President F.W. de Klerk announces that 

            eight prominent political prisoners, including African 

            National Congress official Walter Sisulu, would be 

            unconditionally freed, but that Nelson Mandela would 

            remain imprisoned.


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