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1126 - Today in Black History - November 26
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*             Today in Black History - November 26          *

1866 - Rust College is founded in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

1872 - Macon B. Allen is elected judge of the Lower Court of 
	Charleston, South Carolina.  Allen, the first African 
	American lawyer, becomes the second African American 
	to hold a major judicial position and the first 
	African American with a major judicial position on 
	the municipal level.

1883 - Sojourner Truth, women's rights advocate, poet, and 
	freedom fighter, joins the ancestors in Battle Creek, 
	Michigan.
 
1890 - Savannah State College is founded in Savannah, Georgia. 

1968 - O.J. Simpson is named Heisman Trophy winner for 1968. 
	A running back for the University of Southern 
	California, Simpson amassed a total of 3,187 yards in 
	18 games and scored 33 touchdowns in two seasons. He 
	will play professional football with the Buffalo Bills 
	and the San Francisco 49ers and be equally well known
	as a sportscaster and actor.  
          
1970 - Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. the first African American 
	general in the U.S. military, joins the ancestors at 
	the age of 93 in Chicago, Illinois.

1970 - Charles Gordone is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his 
	play, "No Place To Be Somebody."

1970 - Painter, Jacob Lawrence is awarded the Spingarn Medal 
	"in tribute to the compelling power of his work which 
	has opened to the world...a window on the Negro's 
	condition in the United States" and "in salute to his 
	unswerving commitment" to the Black struggle.

1986 - Scatman Crothers, actor, who is best known for his role 
	as "Louie" on TV's "Chico & the Man", joins the 
	ancestors at the age of 76.

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