*              Today in Black History - November 10         *

 

1891 - Granville T. Woods obtains a patent for the electric 

            railway.

 

1898 - A race riot occurs in Wilmington, North Carolina 

            resulting in the death of eight African Americans. 

 

1898 - The National Benefit Life Insurance Company is 

            organized in Washington, DC, by Samuel W. Rutherford. 

            National Benefit will be the largest African American 

            insurance company for several years.

 

1919 - Moise Tshombe is born.  He will lead a secessionist 

            movement in Katanga, the Congo's (Zaire) richest 

            province in 1960, following independence from Belgium.   

            Tshombe will end his secession and accept a 

            UN-brokered National Conciliation Plan in January 1963. 

            Eighteen months of further negotiations will lead to 

            him being appointed Prime Minister, but he will go 

            into exile in 1965. He will join the ancestors in 1969.

 

1930 - Clarence Pendleton is born in Louisville, Kentucky.  He 

            will become the first African American chairman of the 

            United States Civil Rights Commission in 1981(through 

            1988), where he will oppose affirmative action and 

            busing to achieve school desegregation. 

 

1951 - Hosea Richardson becomes the first African American 

            jockey to ride in Florida. 

 

1956 - David Adkin is born in Benton Harbor, Michigan.  He will 

            become a comedian and actor, better known as "Sinbad."  

            He will get his big break on television's "Star Search" 

            in 1984.  He will appear in the television series 

            "Different World," and become the emcee of "Showtime at 

            the Apollo."  His movie credits will include "Necessary

            Roughness," "The Meteor Man," "Coneheads," "Sinbad-Afros 

            and Bellbottoms," "The Frog Prince," "The Cherokee Kid,"

            "Jingle All The Way," "First Kid," " and "Good Burger."

            He will also produce and emcee the successful "Soul 

            Music Festivals" held annually in Caribbean countries.

 

1957 - Charlie Sifford becomes the first African American to 

            win a major professional golf tournament, by winning the 

            Long Beach Open.

 

1960 - Andrew Hatcher is named associate press secretary to 

            President John F. Kennedy.  He is the highest-ranking 

            African American, appointed to date, in the executive 

            branch. 

 

1968 - Ida Cox, blues singer of such songs as "Wild Women Don't 

            Have the Blues," joins the ancestors in Knoxville, 

            Tennessee.

 

1989 - The Rhythm and Blues Foundation presents its first 

            lifetime achievement awards in Washington DC.  Among the 

            honorees are bluesmen Charles Brown, Ruth Brown, Percy 

            Sledge ("When a Man Loves a Woman"), and Mary Wells ("My 

            Guy").


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