*                         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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