*                   Today in Black History - October 20                *

1895 - Rex Ingram is born near Cairo, Illinois.  He will attend
        medical school and earn a Phi Beta Kappa key but forsake
        medicine for the stage, becoming a powerful actor on the
        stage and screen, most notably as "De Lawd" in the 1936 film
        "The Green Pastures."  He will also appear in "Cabin in the
        Sky" and "Anna Lucasta."

1898 - North Carolina Mutual Life and Provident Association is
        organized by seven African Americans: John Merrick, Dr. Aaron
        M. Moore, P.W. Dawkins, D.T. Watson, W.G. Pearson, E.A.
        Johnson, and James E. Shepard.  Each invests $50 in the
        company, which will grow to become North Carolina Mutual Life
        Insurance Company and have over $211 million in assets and
        over $8 billion of insurance in force by 1991.

1924 - The "First Colored World Series" of baseball is held in Kansas
        City, Missouri.  The series, which pits the Kansas City
        Monarchs against the Hillsdale team from Darby, Pennsylvania,
        is won by the Monarchs, five games to four, and was organized
        by Rube Foster.

1932 - Roosevelt Brown is born in Charlottesville, Virginia.  He will
        become a football star at Morgan State College in Baltimore,
        Maryland, and will be drafted in the 27th round by the New York
        Giants in 1953.  Over  his career he will be All-NFL for eight
        straight years (1956-1963), play in nine Pro Bowl games, and
        named NFL's Lineman of Year (1956). He will play for the Giants
        for 13 seasons and will be elected to the NFL Hall of Fame in
        1975.

1942 - Sixty leading southern African Americans issued the "Durham
        Manifesto", calling for fundamental changes in race relations
        after a Durham, North Carolina, meeting.

1952 - The Mau Mau uprising against British rule in Kenya begins, with
        attacks against both British settlers and Africans who refused
        to join the rebellion.  Although British rule is widely resented
        in Kenya, the Mau Mau fighters are mostly members of the Kikuyu
        ethnic group, whose land had been taken over by British settlers.
        The British will respond harshly to the rebellion, killing nearly
        11,000 rebels and confining 80,000 Kikuyus in detention camps.
        Although it will be a military failure, the Mau Mau rebellion will
        bring international attention to the Africans' grievances, and
        contribute to Kenya's independence in 1963.

1953 - Jomo Kenyatta and five other Mau Mau leaders are refused an
        appeal of their prison terms in British East Africa (Kenya).
        Members of the Mau Mau guerilla troops all took an oath to
        commit themselves to expelling all white settlers in Kenya
        and to eliminate the Africans who cooperated with or benefited
        from colonial rule.

1963 - Jim Brown, of the Cleveland Browns, sets the then NFL all-time
        rushing record, 8,390 yds.

1963 - South Africa begins the trial of Nelson Mandela & eight others
        on charges of conspiracy.

1967 - An all-white federal jury in Meridian, Mississippi convicts 7
        white men in the murder of 3 civil rights workers.  They are
        convicted of civil rights' violations.

1968 - Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, joins the ancestors at the age
        of 84.  His church services were broadcast weekly, first on
        radio, then on television.  The theme song of his broadcasts
        was "Happy am I, I'm always happy!"

1976 - New York Nets' (ABA), Julius "Dr. J" Erving is sold to the
        Philadelphia 76ers.  This will be the beginning of his All-Star
        career in the NBA.

1989 - The Senate convicts U.S. District Judge Alcee L. Hastings of
        perjury and conspiracy and removed him from office. The
        conviction will be overturned and Hastings is later elected to
        the House of Representatives.

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