*                Today in Black History - December 11               *

1872 - America's first African American governor takes office as
        Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback became acting governor of
        Louisiana.

1916 - John E. Bush, former slave and teacher, joins the ancestors.
        He had been appointed receiver of the United States Land Office
        in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1898.

1917 - 13 African American soldiers are hanged for alleged participation
        in a Houston riot.

1917 - The Great Jazz migration begins as Joe Oliver leaves New Orleans
        and settles in Chicago, to be joined later by other stars.

1917 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Harry T. Burleigh,
        composer and accomplished opera singer, for excellence in the
        field of music.

1926 - Willie Mae Thornton is born in Montgomery, Alabama.  She will
        be better known as "Big Mama" Thornton, a blues singer whose
        recording of "Hound Dog" in 1952 will be mimicked by Elvis
        Presley, much to his success.  She also recorded the hits
        "Ball & Chain," and "Stronger than Dirt."

1928 - Lewis Latimore joins the ancestors in Flushing, New York.
        Employed as a chief draftsman, Mr. Latimore created the
        drawings for Alexander Graham Bell's telephone in 1870.

1931 - The British Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative
        independence to South Africa.

1940 - Lev T. Mills, who will become an artist and chairman of the
        art department at Spelman College, is born in Tallahassee,
        Florida.  His prints and mixed-media works will be collected
        by the Victoria & Albert and British Museums in London and
        the High Museum in Atlanta and include glass mosaic murals for
        an Atlanta subway station and the atrium floor of Atlanta's
        City Hall.

1954 - Jermaine Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana.  He will become a
        singer and musician with his brothers and perform with their
        group, The Jackson Five.

1961 - U.S. Supreme Court reverses the conviction of sixteen sit-in
        students who had been arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

1961 - Langston Hughes' musical, "Black Nativity," opens on Broadway.

1964 - Sam Cooke joins the ancestors after being killed.  Bertha
        Franklin, Manager of the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles,
        claimed she killed the singer in self-defense after he'd
        tried to rape a 22-year-woman and then turned on Franklin.

1980 - George Rogers, a running back for the University of South
        Carolina, is awarded the Heisman Trophy.  He achieved 21
        consecutive 100-yard games with the gamecocks and led the
        nation in rushing.

1981 - Muhammad Ali's boxes in his 61st & last fight, losing to
        Trevor Berbick.

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