*                   Today in Black History - October 5               *

1867 - Monroe Baker, a well-to-do African American businessman, is named
        mayor of St. Martin, Louisiana.  He is probably the first African
        American to serve as mayor of a town.

1872 - Booker T. Washington leaves Malden, West Virginia to enter Hampton
        Institute.

1878 - George B. Vashion joins the ancestors after succumbing to yellow
        fever in Rodney, Mississippi. He was the first African American
        lawyer in the state of New York and an educator and poet whose most
        famous work was "Victor Oge" (1854), the first narrative, nonlyrical
        poem by an African American writer.

1929 - Autherine Lucy (later Foster) is born in Shiloh, Alabama. She will
        be the first African American student to enroll at the University
        of Alabama (1956).

1932 - Perle Yvonne Watson is born in Los Angeles, California. As Yvonne
        Braithwaite, she will serve as staff attorney on the McCone
        Commission investigating the causes of the Watts riots and will
        become the first African American woman elected to the California
        state assembly, as well as the first African American woman
        elected to the House of Representatives.  She also will be the
        first woman to sit on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
        as a result of an appointment by Governor Brown.  Some years later,
        she will become the first woman elected to the Los Angeles County
        Board of Supervisors.

1985 - Grambling's coach Eddie Robinson wins his record 324th college
        football game.

1992 - Eddie Kendrick, one of the original members of the Motown group,
        The Temptations, joins the ancestors after succumbing to lung
        cancer.

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