*             Today in Black History - December 3             *

 

1841 - Abolitionist Charles Lenox Remond returns to the United 

            States after a year and a half in Great Britain.  He 

            had been serving as a delegate to the world Anti-

            Slavery Convention in London. He brings with him an 

            "Address from the People of Ireland" including 60,000 

            signatures urging Irish-Americans to "oppose slavery by 

            peaceful means and to insist upon liberty for all 

            regardless of color, creed, or country."

 

1843 - The Society of Colored People in Baltimore, is the first 

            African American Catholic association whose 

            documentation has been preserved. Their notebook will 

            begin today and continue until September 7, 1845.

 

1847 - Frederick Douglass and Martin R. Delaney begin the 

            publication of "The North Star" newspaper, one of the 

            leading abolitionist newspapers of its day.

 

1864 - The Twenty-Fifth Corps, the largest all African American 

            unit in the history of the U.S. Army, is established by 

            General Order # 297 of the War Department, Adjutant 

            General's Office.  The Colored Troops of the Department 

            of Virginia and North Carolina were organized into the

            Twenty-Fifth Corps under the command of Major General G. 

            Weitzel.

 

1866 - John Swett Rock, a Massachusetts lawyer and dentist joins 

            the ancestors.  He had become the first African American

            certified to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.  

            Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase appointed Dr. Rock to 

            present cases before the Supreme Court on December 31, 

            1865. 

 

1868 - The trial of ex-Confederacy president, Jefferson Davis 

            starts, marking the first United States trial with 

            African Americans included in the jury. 

 

1883 - The Forty-Eighth Congress (1883-85) convenes. Only Two 

            African Americans are included as representatives.  They 

            are James E. O'Hara of North Carolina and Robert Smalls 

            of South Carolina. 

            

1883 - George L. Ruffin is appointed a city judge in Boston, 

            Massachusetts.

 

1922 - Ralph Gardner is born in Cleveland, Ohio.  He will become 

            a pioneer chemist whose research into plastics leads to 

            the development of so-called "hard plastics."  His 

            innovations in the manipulation of catalytic chemicals 

            will lead to the products for the petrochemical

            and pharmaceutical industries as well as plastics.

 

1951 - President Truman names a committee to monitor compliance 

            with anti-discrimination provisions in U.S. government 

            contracts and sub-contracts.

 

1956 - Wilt Chamberlain plays in his first collegiate basketball 

            game and scores 52 points. 

 

1962 - Edith Spurlock Sampson is sworn in as the first African 

            American woman judge.

 

1964 - The Spingarn Medal is presented to NAACP executive 

            secretary Roy Wilkins for his contribution to "the 

            advancement of the American people and the national 

            purpose."

 

1964 - The Independence Bank of Chicago is organized.

 

1964 - J. Raymond Jones is elected leader of the New York 

            Democratic organization (Tammany Hall).

 

1970 - Jennifer Josephine Hosten become the first African 

            American Miss World. 

 

1979 - An University of Southern California running back, 

            Charles White, is named the Heisman Trophy winner for 

            1979.  White, who gained a career regular season total 

            of 5,598 yards, will play professionally for the Los 

            Angeles Rams.

 

1982 - Thomas Hearns unifies the world boxing titles in the 

            junior middleweight division by capturing the WBC title 

            over Wilfredo Benitez.

 

1988 - Barry Sanders wins the Heisman Trophy.

 

1988 - In South Africa, 11 black funeral mourners are slain in 

            Natal Province in an attack blamed on security forces.

 

1990 - "Black Art - Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in 

            African American Art" opens at the Dallas Museum of Art.  

            United States and Caribbean artists represented among 

            the more than 150 works include Richmond Barthe', John 

            Biggers, Aaron Douglas, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent 

            Johnson, and Houston Conwill.

 

1997 - President Clinton hosts his first town hall meeting on 

            America's race relations in Akron, Ohio.


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