*                Today in Black History - December 22                *

1873 - Abolitionist Charles Lenox Remond dies.  He was the first African
        American lecturer employed by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery
        Society.

1883 - Arthur Wergs Mitchell is born near Lafayette, Alabama.  He will
        become the first African American Democrat elected to Congress,
        representing Illinois for four terms.  In 1937, after being
        forced from first-class train accommodations in Arkansas to
        ride in a shabby Jim Crow car.  Mitchell will sue the railroad
        and eventually argue unsuccessfully before the Supreme Court
        that interstate trains be exempt from Arkansas' "separate but
        equal" laws.

1898 - Historian and author of "Destruction of Black Civilization," Dr.
        Chancellor Williams is born.

1905 - James A. Porter is born in Baltimore, Maryland.  An artist,
        chairperson of the department of art at Howard University and
        one of the earliest scholars of African American art, Porter
        will exhibit his works widely in the United States, Europe,
        and Africa.

1939 - Jerry Pinckney is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He will
        become an award-winning illustrator of children's books and
        numerous U.S. postage stamps featuring notable African Americans.

1943 - W.E.B. Du Bois is elected as the first African American member of
        the National Institute of Arts & Letters.

1980 - Samuel R. Pierce, Jr., a New York City lawyer and former judge,
        is named to President Ronald Reagan's Cabinet as Secretary of
        Housing and Urban Development.

1984 - Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black youths on a New York City subway
        train, because he thought they were going to rob him.

1988 - South Africa signs an accord granting independence to South-West
        Africa.

1989 - The art exhibit "Afro-American Artists in Paris: 1919-1939"
        closes at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery on the Hunter
        College campus in New York City.  The exhibit of eight artists
        including William Harper, Lois Mailou Jones, Archibald Motley,
        Jr., Henry O. Tanner, and Hale Woodruff, among others, powerfully
        illustrated the results achieved by African American artists when
        they were able to leave the confines and restrictions imposed upon
        them by race in the United States.

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