*                   Today in Black History - October 10               *

1874 - South Carolina Republicans carry the election with a reduced
        victory margin.  The Republican ticket is composed of four whites
        and four Blacks.

1899 - J.W. Butts, inventor, receives a patent for a luggage carrier.

1899 - I. R. Johnson patents his bicycle frame.

1901 - Frederick Douglass Patterson is born in Washington, DC.  He will
        receive doctorate degrees from both Iowa State University and
        Cornell University.  Dr. Patterson will serve as the president
        of Tuskegee Institute from 1935 to 1955.  In 1943, he will
        organize a meeting of the heads of Black colleges to conduct
        annual campaigns for funds needed to help meet the operating
        expenses of 27 Black colleges and universities.  This will result
        in the formation of the United Negro College Fund. Dr. Patterson
        will serve as its first president.

1917 - Thelonious Monk is born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.  He will
        become an innovative jazz pianist and composer of ‘Round Midnight.'
         Monk will be considered one of the fathers of jazz improvisation
        and in 1961 will be featured on the cover of Time magazine, only
        one of three jazz musicians so honored at that time.

1935 - George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" premieres at the Alvin Theater
        in New York City.

1946 - Ben Vereen is born in Miami, Florida.  He will become a dancer and
        multi-faceted entertainer.

1953 - Gus Williams is born. He will become a professional basketball
        player and NBA guard with the Golden State Warriors, Seattle
        Supersonics, and Washington Bullets.

1957 - President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana,
        Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover,
        Delaware restaurant.

1961 - Otis M. Smith is appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court and becomes
        the first African American on the high court.

1978 - Congressman Ralph H. Metcalfe joins the ancestors in Chicago at the
        age of 68.

1989 -  South African President F.W. de Klerk announces that eight
        prominent political prisoners, including African National Congress
        official Walter Sisulu, would be unconditionally freed, but that
        Nelson Mandela would remain imprisoned.

1991 - Redd Foxx (John Elroy Sanford), comedian (Sanford & Sons), joins
        the ancestors at the age of 68.

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