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*              Today in Black History - November 28           *

 

1868 - John Sengstacke Abbott is born in Frederica, Georigia. 

            The son of former slaves, he will attend Hampton 

            Institute and prepare himself for the printing trade.  

            He will also go on to law school, and will work as an 

            attorney for a few years, but will change careers to 

            become a journalist. He will found the Chicago Defender, 

            a weekly newspaper on May 6, 1905. He will start the 

            paper on $25, and in the beginning, operate it out of 

            his kitchen. Under his direction, the Defender will 

            become the most widely circulated African American 

            newspaper of its time and a leading voice in the fight 

            against racism. He will cultivate a controversial, 

            aggressive style, reporting on such issues as violence 

            against blacks and police brutality. The Defender will 

            raise eyebrows with its anti-lynching slogan - "If you 

            must die, take at least one with you," its opposition 

            to a segregated Colored Officers Training Camp in Fort 

            Des Moines, Iowa in 1917, and its condemnation of Marcus 

            Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). 

            Through the Defender, he will also play a major role in 

            the "Great Migration" of many African Americans from the 

            South to Chicago.  He will join the ancestors on 

            February 22, 1940.

 

1871 - The Ku Klux Klan trials begin in Federal District Court 

            in South Carolina.

 

1907 - Charles Alston is born in Charlotte, North Carolina.  

            After studying at Columbia University and Pratt 

            Institute, he will travel to Europe and the Caribbean, 

            execute murals for Harlem Hospital and Golden State 

            Mutual Life Insurance Company in Los Angeles, earning 

            the National Academy of Design Award, and the First 

            Award of the Atlanta University Collection's 1942 show 

            for his watercolor painting, "Farm Boy".  As a teacher, 

            he will teach at the Harlem Community Art Center, Harlem 

            Art Workshop, and Pennsylvania State University.  He 

            will be an associate professor of painting at The City 

            University of New York and a muralist for the WPA during 

            the Depression. His two-panel mural of that period, 

            "Magic and Medicine," can be seen at Harlem Hospital. He 

            will become a full professor at City University of New 

            York in 1973. He will join the ancestors on April 27, 

            1977.

 

1929 - Berry Gordy is born in Detroit, Michigan.  He will become 

            the the founder and president of Motown Records, the 

            most successful African American-owned record company.  

            Gordy's "Motown Sound" will become synonymous with the 

            1960's and will launch the careers of Diana Ross and the 

            Supremes, the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson 

            and the Miracles, the Jackson Five, and many others. 

 

1942 - Richard Wright, author of "Native Son" and "Black Boy", 

            joins the ancestors in Paris, France at the age of 52. 

 

1942 - Paul Warfield is born in Warren, Ohio.  He will become an 

            wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns and Miami Dolphins.  

            Over his career, he will catch 427 passes for 8,565 yards 

            and 85 touchdowns. He will have a sensational 20.1-yard 

            per catch average and will be All-NFL five years.  He also 

            will be named to eight Pro Bowls.  He will be enshrined in 

            the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1983.

 

1958 - Chad, Congo, and & Mauritania become autonomous members of 

            the French World Community.

 

1960 - Mauritania gains independence from France. 

 

1961 - The Downtown Athletic Club awards the Heisman Trophy to 

            Ernie Davis, a halfback from Syracuse University.  He is 

            the first African American to win the award. 

 

1966 - A coup occurs in Burundi overthrowing the monarchy.  A 

            republic is declared as a replacement form of government.

 

1981 - Pam McAllister Johnson is named as publisher of Gannett's 

            Ithaca (New York) Journal.  She is the first African 

            American woman to head a general circulation newspaper in 

            the United States.

 

1992 - In King William's Town, South Africa, four people are 

            killed, about 20 injured, when black militant gunmen 

            attack a country club.


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