* Today in Black History - November 23 *
1867 - The Louisiana constitutional convention (forty-nine white
delegates and forty-nine African American delegates) meets
in Mechanics Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1897 - J.L. Love receives a patent for the pencil sharpener.
1897 - Andrew J. Beard receives a patent for the "jerry coupler,"
still is use today to connect railroad cars.
1905 - Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physician, is named minister
to Haiti. He will be the last African American minister to
Haiti during this period in history.
1934 - "Imitation of Life" premieres in New York City. Starring
Claudette Colbert, Louise Beavers, and Fredi Washington, it
is the story of a white woman and an African American woman
who build a pancake business while the latter's daughter makes
a desperate attempt to pass for white.
1965 - Mike Garrett, a University of Southern California running back
with 4,876 total yards and 3,221 yards rushing, is announced as
the Downtown Athletic Club's Heisman Trophy winner of 1965. He
is the University of Southern California's first Heisman Trophy
winner. He will go on to play eight years in the pros, first
with the Kansas City Chiefs and later with the San Diego
Chargers, and be elected to the National Football Hall of Fame
in 1985.
1980 - One thousand persons from twenty five states gather in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and form the National Black
Independent Party.
1988 - Al Raby, the civil rights leader who convinced Martin Luther
King, Jr. to bring his movement to Chicago, joins the ancestors
after suffering a heart attack.
1988 - South African President Pieter Botha gives a reprieve to the
Sharpeville Six.
1991 - Evander Holyfield retains the heavyweight boxing title, by KO
over Bert Cooper in the seventh round.
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