* Today in Black History - November 6 *
1746 - Absalom Jones, a major leader of the African American Pioneer
period, is born into slavery in Sussex, Delaware. He will
become a friend of Richard Allen and together they will found
the Free African Society, which would serve as a protective
society and social organization for free African Americans.
After founding a black congregation in 1794, he will be the
first African American ordained as a priest in the Episcopal
Church of the United States, in 1804. He will join the ancestors
on February 13, 1818. He will be listed on the Episcopal
calendar of saints and remembered liturgically on the date of
his death, February 13, in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer as
"Absalom Jones, Priest, 1818".
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1844 - Spain grants the Dominican Republic its independence.
1868 - Jonathan Gibbs, minister and educator, is appointed Secretary
of State by the governor of Florida.
1884 - Author and abolitionist William Wells Brown joins the ancestors
in Chelsea, Massachusetts. An escaped slave, Brown's
autobiography sold 10,000 copies, a record in his day. He
also wrote the first known travelogue by an African American
and authored the 1853 work "Clotel"; "Or The President's
Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States", the
first fictional work published by an African American.
1900 - James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson compose "Lift
Ev'ry Voice and Sing." It will become known as the "Negro
National Anthem."
1920 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is awarded to W.E.B. Du Bois for
"the founding and calling of the Pan African Congress."
1920 - James Weldon Johnson becomes the first African American
executive secretary of the NAACP.
1928 - Oscar DePriest is elected to the Seventy-First Congress from
Illinois' First Congressional District (Chicago). Before
becoming a U.S. Representative, DePriest will be the first
African American to serve on the Chicago City Council, having
been elected alderman of the Second Ward in 1915. He will be
the first African American to win a seat in the United States
House of Representatives in the twentieth century.
1928 - The Atlanta "Daily World" is founded by W.A. Scott Jr. The
newspaper will become a daily in 1933.
1928 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Charles W. Chestnutt,
the first African American to receive widespread critical
recognition as a novelist. He was cited for his "pioneer work
as a literary artist depicting the life and struggle of
Americans of Negro descent."
1937 - Eugene Sampson Pitt is born in Brooklyn, New York. He will become
a rhythm and blues singer with The Genies - "Who's that Knockin'"
and founding member and lead singer for The Jive Five - "Never
Never," "What Time is It?," "I'm a Happy Man" and "My True Story".
In 1985, he and The Jive Five will be introduced to New York cable
TV branding consultants Fred Seibert and Alan Goodman by his latest
producer, Ambient Sound's Marty Pekar. Together they will embark on
an almost ten-year relationship, creating and singing the a
cappella signature sound of the American kids' television network
"Nickelodeon." Terry Stewart, President & CEO of the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame, will refer to Pitt as "the most underrated soul singer
in America."
1962 - Edward W. Brooke is elected Attorney General of Massachusetts,
Gerald Lamb is elected Treasurer of Connecticut, and 5 African
Americans are elected to the House of Representatives. Augustus
"Gus" F. Hawkins, becomes the first African American congressman
from the West (Los Angeles, California).
1962 - The U.N. General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South
Africa for its apartheid policies and recommends member states
apply economic sanctions.
1973 - Coleman Young is elected as the first African American mayor
of Detroit, Michigan.
1973 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Wilson C. Riles,
the superintendent of public instruction in California, "in
recognition of the stature he has attained as a national leader
in the field of education."
1973 - The Symbionese Liberation Army ambushes Marcus A. Foster,
superintendent of public schools in Oakland, California, after
a Board of Education meeting. Two members of the group, were
convicted of the slaying, but one of the men will have his
conviction overturned, based on a legal technicality.
1973 - Thomas Bradley is elected as the first African American mayor
of Los Angeles, California. His political success will be due
to his masterful use of multi-racial coalition. African
Americans at this time were not a large segment of the Los
Angeles population.
1976 - FCC Commissioner Benjamin Hooks is elected NAACP executive
director by the organization's board of directors, succeeding
Roy Wilkins. He will serve the organization for 16 years,
retiring in 1992. Of his tenure he will say, "We have maintained
the integrity of this organization and kept our name out front
and on the minds of those who would turn back the clock."
1983 - Sgt. Farley Simon, a native of Grenada, becomes the first Marine
to win the Marine Corps Marathon.
1990 - Harvey Gantt, former mayor of Charlotte, NC, loses his Senate
race to incumbent Jesse Helms and the opportunity to become the
first African American senator from the South since
Reconstruction. Barbara-Rose Collins and Maxine Waters are
elected to Congress from their home districts in Michigan and
California, respectively, while Eleanor Holmes Norton is elected
as a non-voting delegate from the District of Columbia.
1990 - Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
1992 - Vernon Jordan, along with Warren Christopher, is asked to lead
the White House transition team, by President-elect William
Jefferson Clinton.
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