*            Today in Black History - November 2            *

 

1875 - Democrats suppress the African American vote by fraud 

            and violence and carry Mississippi elections. "The 

            Mississippi Plan" staged riots, political 

            assassinations, massacres and social and economic 

            intimidation will be used later to overthrow 

            Reconstruction governments in South Carolina and 

            Louisiana.

 

1903 - Business and civic leader, Maggie Lena Walker, opens 

            the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia, 

            becoming the first female bank president in the United 

            States.   

 

1930 - Ras Tafari Makonnen is crowned Negus of Ethiopia, taking

            the name Haile Selassie I, 225th Emperor of Solomonic 

            Dynasty. His coronation will signify to thousands of 

            Jamaicans and Garveyites in the United States, the 

            fulfillment of the prophecy of their leader, Marcus 

            Garvey. 

 

1954 - Charles C. Diggs becomes the first African American 

            representative to Congress from Michigan.  He, along 

            with William Dawson of Illinois and Adam Clayton Powell, 

            Jr. of New York, comprise the largest number of African 

            Americans to date in Congress in the 20th century. Diggs 

            will leave Congress in 1980 after being convicted of 

            mail fraud and being censured by Congress. 

 

1954 - NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Dr. Theodore K. 

            Lawles for his research on skin-related diseases.

 

1958 - Willie McGee, baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals and 

            1985 National League MVP), is born. 

 

1979 - Black activist Joanne Chesimard escapes from a New Jersey

            prison, where she was serving a life sentence for the 

            1973 slaying of a New Jersey state trooper.  Chesimard, 

            who takes the name Assata Shakur successfully flees the 

            United States to Cuba. 

 

1982 - Katie B. Hall is elected the first African American 

            congressional representative from Indiana. 

 

1983 - President Ronald Reagan signs a bill to establish a 

            federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, 

            Jr.'s birthday on the third Monday in January.  It is 

            the culmination of the efforts by many civil rights 

            organizations and entertainers to name King's birthday 

            as a national holiday.


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