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* 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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