* Today in Black History - November 6 *
1746 - Absalom Jones, a major leader of the African American
Pioneer period, is born into slavery in Sussex,
Delaware. Jones will become a friend of Richard Allen
and together they will found the Free African Society,
which would serve as a protective society and social
organization for free African Americans.
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1844 - Spain grants the Dominican Republic its independence.
1868 - Jonathan Gibbs, minister and educator, is appointed
Secretary of State by the governor of Florida.
1884 - Author and abolitionist William Wells Brown joins the
ancestors in Chelsea, Massachusetts. An escaped slave,
Brown's autobiography sold 10,000 copies, a record in
his day. Brown also wrote the first known travelogue
by an African American and authored the 1853 work
"Clotel"; "Or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of
Slave Life in the United States", the first fictional
work published by an African American.
1900 - James Weldon Johnson (lyrics) and J. Rosamond Johnson
(music) compose "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing." It will
become known as the "Negro National Anthem."
1920 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is awarded to W.E.B. Du Bois
for "the founding and calling of the Pan African
Congress."
1920 - James Weldon Johnson becomes the first African American
executive secretary of the NAACP.
1928 - Oscar DePriest is elected to the Seventy-First Congress
from Illinois' First Congressional District (Chicago).
Before becoming a U.S. Representative, DePriest was the
first African American to serve on the Chicago City
Council, having been elected alderman of the Second
Ward in 1915. He is the first African American to win
a seat in the United States House of Representatives
in the twentieth century.
1928 - The Atlanta "Daily World" is founded by W.A. Scott Jr.
The newspaper will become a daily in 1933.
1928 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Charles W.
Chestnutt, the first African American to receive
widespread critical recognition as a novelist. He was
cited for his "pioneer work as a literary artist
depicting the life and struggle of Americans of Negro
descent."
1937 - Eugene Pitt is born in Brooklyn, New York. He will
become a rhythm and blues singer with The Genies -
"Who's that Knockin'" and lead singer for The Jive
Five - "Never Never," "What Time is It?," "I'm a Happy
Man" and "My True Story".
1962 - Edward W. Brooke is elected Attorney General of
Massachusetts, Gerald Lamb is elected Treasurer of
Connecticut, and 5 African Americans are elected to the
House of Representatives. Augustus "Gus" F. Hawkins,
becomes the first African American congressman from the
West (Los Angeles, California).
1962 - The U.N. General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning
South Africa for its apartheid policies and recommends
member states apply economic sanctions.
1973 - Coleman Young is elected as the first African American
mayor of Detroit, Michigan.
1973 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Wilson C.
Riles, the superintendent of public instruction in
California, "in recognition of the stature he has
attained as a national leader in the field of
education."
1973 - The Symbionese Liberation Army ambushes Marcus A.
Foster, superintendent of public schools in Oakland,
California, after a Board of Education meeting. Two
members of the group, were convicted of the slaying,
but one of the men has his conviction overturned,
based on a legal technicality.
1973 - Thomas Bradley is elected as the first African American
mayor of Los Angeles, California. His political
success was due to his masterful use of multi-racial
coalition. African Americans at this time were not a
large segment of the Los Angeles population.
1976 - FCC Commissioner Benjamin Hooks is elected NAACP
executive director by the organization's board of
directors, succeeding Roy Wilkins. He will serve the
organization in that position for 16 years, retiring in
1992. Of his tenure he says, "We have maintained the
integrity of this organization and kept our name out
front and on the minds of those who would turn back the
clock."
1983 - Sgt. Farley Simon, a native of Grenada, becomes the
first Marine to win the Marine Corps Marathon.
1990 - Harvey Gantt, former mayor of Charlotte, NC, loses his
Senate race to incumbent Jesse Helms and the
opportunity to become the first African American
senator from the South since Reconstruction. Barbara-
Rose Collins and Maxine Waters are elected to Congress
from their home districts in Michigan and California,
respectively, while Eleanor Holmes Norton is elected
as a non-voting delegate from the District of Columbia.
1990 - Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
1992 - Vernon Jordan, along with Warren Christopher, is asked
to lead the White House transition team, by President-
elect William Jefferson Clinton.
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