*            Today in Black History - November 3             *

 

1868 - John W. Menard, of Louisiana, is elected as the African

            American representative to Congress.  Menard defeats a 

            white candidate, 5,107 to 2,833, in an election in 

            Louisiana's Second Congressional District to fill an 

            unexpired term in the Fortieth Congress.

 

1874 - James Theodore Holly, an African American who emigrated 

            to Haiti in 1861, is elected bishop of Haiti.

 

1883 - Race riots occur in Danville, Virginia, resulting in the 

            death of four African Americans.

 

1896 - South Carolina State College is established.

 

1905 - Artist Lois Mailou Jones is born in Boston, Massachusetts. 

            She will win her first award in 1926 and have major 

            exhibitions at the Harmon Foundation, the Salon des 

            Artistes Francais in Paris, the National Academy of 

            Design, and many others.  Despite her long career, she 

            will not have a major retrospective of her work until 

            the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston mounts a show in her 

            honor in 1973. She will join the ancestors on June 9,

            1998. 

 

1920 - "Emperor Jones" opens at the Provincetown Theater with 

            Charles Gilpin in the title role.

 

1933 - Louis Wade Sullivan is born in Atlanta, Georgia.  He will 

            become the founder and first dean of the Morehouse 

            School of Medicine and Secretary of Health and Human 

            Services, the highest-ranking African American in the 

            Bush Administration.

 

1942 - William L. Dawson is elected to Congress from Chicago.  

 

1942 - Black and white advocates of direct, nonviolent action 

            organized the Congress of Racial Equality in Chicago. 

            Three CORE members stage a sit-in at Stoner's Restaurant

            in Chicago's Loop.

 

1942 - The Spingarn Medal is presented to Asa Philip Randolph 

            "for organizing the Sleeping Car Porters under the 

            Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and securing 

            recognition for them; and because of his fearless, 

            determined mobilization of mass opinion that resulted 

            in... Executive Order No. 8802, which banned racial 

            discrimination in defense industries and government work."

 

1945 - Irving C. Mollison, a Chicago Republican, is sworn in as 

            U.S. Customs Court judge in New York City.

 

1945 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Paul Robeson 

            "for his outstanding achievement in the theater, on the 

            concert stage, and in the general field of racial 

            welfare."

 

1949 - Larry Holmes is born in Easton, Pennsylvania.  He will 

            become a professional boxer and world heavyweight 

            champion from 1978 to 1985.  During his reign, he will 

            defend his title more times than any other heavyweight 

            in history, with the exception of Joe Louis.

 

1953 - Jeffrey Banks is born in Washington, DC.  He will become 

            an influential fashion designer and the youngest designer 

            to win the prestigious Coty Award, for his outstanding 

            fur designs. 

 

1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of the NBA San Francisco Warriors, scores 

            72 points vs the Los Angeles Lakers.

 

1964 - John Conyers, Jr. is elected to the House of 

            Representatives from Detroit, Michigan.

 

1970 - Twelve African Americans are elected to the Ninety-second 

            Congress, including five new congressmen: Ralph H. 

            Metcalfe (Illinois), George Collins (Illinois), Charles 

            Rangel (New York), Ronald Dellums (California), and 

            Parren Mitchell (Maryland).

 

1970 - Wilson Riles is elected as the first African American 

            superintendent of Public Instruction in California.  

 

1970 - Richard Austin is elected as the first African American 

            secretary of state in Michigan.

 

1974 - Harold G. Ford is elected U.S. Congressman from Tennessee.  

 

1978 - Dominica is granted its independence by the Great Britain.

 

1979 - Klansmen fire on an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, North 

            Carolina, and kill five persons.

 

1981 - Coleman Young is re-elected mayor of Detroit. Thurman L. 

            Milner is elected mayor of Hartford, Connecticut.  James 

            Chase is elected mayor of Spokane, Washington. 

 

1983 - Reverend Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for 

            President of the United States.  Although unsuccessful in 

            this and a later 1988 campaign, Jackson will win many 

            Democratic state primaries. His candidacy will win him 

            national attention and a platform for increased 

            representation by African Americans in the Democratic

            Party. 

 

1992 - Carol Moseley Braun is the first African American woman to

            be elected to the U.S. Senate.  

 

1992 - James Clyburn is the first African American to represent 

            South Carolina since Reconstruction.  He had previously 

            served for 18 years as South Carolina's Human Affairs 

            Commissioner.  


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