*              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").

2006 - Gerald Levert, the fiery singer of passionate Rhythm & 
	Blues love songs and the son of O'Jays singer Eddie 
	Levert, joins the ancestors at the age of 40, at his 
	home in Cleveland, Ohio.

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