* Today in Black History - November 17 *
1842 - Fugitive slave George Latimer, is captured in Boston. His
capture leads to the first of the fugitive slave cases which
strain relationships between the North and South. Boston
abolitionists will raise money to purchase Latimer from his
slave owner.
1911 - Omega Psi Phi Fraternity is founded on the campus of Howard
University.
1945 - Elvin Hayes, NBA star and Basketball Hall of Famer - "The Big
E" (San Diego, Houston Rockets, Baltimore Bullets; 5th on
list of most games played in ABA/NBA; University of Houston,
All America in 1967 and 1968), is born.
1956 - Fullback Jim Brown of Syracuse University scores 43 pts
against Colgate, establishing a NCAA record.
1967 - Ronnie DeVoe, rhythm and blues singer (New Edition; Bell Biv
DeVoe), is born.
1978 - Two FBI agents testify before the House Select Committee on
Assassinations that the bureau's long-term surveillance of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was based solely on J. Edgar
Hoover's "hatred of the civil rights leader" and not on the
civil rights leader's alleged communist influences or
linkages with radical groups.
1980 - Howard University's WHMM-TV starts broadcasting. It is the
first African American-owned public-broadcasting television
station.
1990 - Itabari Njeri receives the American Book Award for Outstanding
Contribution in American Literature for her book, "Every
Good-bye Ain't Gone." Also honored is poet Sonia Sanchez,
who receives a lifetime achievement award.
1998 - Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) is elected as chairperson
of the Congressional Black Caucus. He is the first Southerner
to head the group, since it was founded in 1971. He had been
first elected to Congress in 1992, the first African American to
represent South Carolina since Reconstruction.
1998 - Esther Rolle, the Emmy Award-winning actress, who won acclaim
on the hit CBS sitcom "Good Times" as well as on stage and in
the movies, joins the ancestors at her home in Los Angeles, at
the age of 78.
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