* 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.
1878 - Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor is born in Indianapolis,
Indiana. He will become an American cyclist and win the
world 1 mile (1.6 km) track cycling championship in 1899
after setting numerous world records and overcoming
racial discrimination. He will be the first African
American athlete to achieve the level of world champion
and only the second black man to win a world championship,
after Canadian boxer George Dixon. He will hold the title
of "the world's fastest bicycle racer" for 12 years. He
will join the ancestors on June 28, 1932 in Chicago,
Illinois.
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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