*               Today in Black History - November 5            *

1828 - Theodore Sedgwick Wright becomes the first African 
	American person to get a Theology Degree in the United 
	States, when he graduates from Princeton Theological 
	Seminary.
               
1867 - First Reconstruction constitutional convention opens in
	Montgomery, Alabama.  It has eighteen African Americans 
	and ninety whites in attendance.

1901 - Etta Moten (later Barnett) is born in San Antonio, Texas. 
	She will become an actress starring in "Porgy and Bess" 
	and have a successful career on Broadway.  She will 
	appear in the movie "Flying Down to Rio"(1933), singing 
	and dancing the Carioca, and as a singer in "The Gold 
	Diggers of 1933"(1933).	In her later years, she will be 
	active as an Advisory Board Member of The Black Academy 
	of Arts and Letters. 

1917 - The Supreme Court (Buchanan vs Warley) rules that a 
	Louisville, Kentucky, ordinance mandating blacks and 
	whites live in separate areas is unconstitutional.

1926 - Negro History Week is initiated by Carter G. Woodson. 

1931 - Ike Turner is born in Clarksdale, Mississippi.  He will 
	become a singer, songwriter/pianist and will join forces
	in 1960 with his wife, Tina Turner.

1935 - The Maryland Court of Appeals orders the University of 
	Maryland to admit African American student, Donald 
	Murray.

1956 - Art Tatum, joins the ancestors at age 46 in Los Angeles, 
	California.  Despite impaired vision, he received formal 
	training in music and developed a unique improvisational 
	style. He was an accomplished jazz pianist who impressed 
	even classicist Vladimir Horowitz.  Perhaps the most 
	gifted technician of all jazzmen, Tatum had other assets 
	as well, among them an harmonic sense so acute as to make 
	him an almost infallible improviser. This aspect of his 
	style, as well as his great rhythmic freedom, influenced 
	the young players who became the founders of a new style 
	called bebop.

1956 - The Nat King Cole Show premiers. The 15-minute show 
	starring the popular singer will run until June 1957 and 
	reappear in July in a half-hour format. The first network 
	variety series hosted by an African American star, it was
	canceled due to lack of support by advertisers. 

1968 - Eight African American males and the first African American 
	female, Shirley Chisholm, are elected to the U.S. Congress.  
	Including previously elected Massachusetts senator Edward 
	Brooke, it is the largest number of African American 
	representatives to serve in Congress since the 44th 
	Congress of 1875-1877. 

1970 - The National Guard is mobilized in Henderson, North 
	Carolina, as a result of racially motivated civil 
	disturbances.

1974 - George Brown of Colorado and Mervyn Dymally of California 
	are the first African American lieutenant governors elected
	in the 20th century, while Walter Washington becomes the 
	first African American to be elected mayor of the District 
	of Columbia, and Harold Ford is elected to Congress from 
	Tennessee, the first African American from the state. 

1974 - The Spingarn Medal is awarded to Damon J. Keith "in tribute 
	to his steadfast defense of constitutional principles as 
	revealed in a series of memorable decisions he handed down 
	as a United States District Court judge."

1989 - The first memorial to the civil rights movement in the 
	United States is dedicated at a ceremony in Montgomery, 
	Alabama.  The memorial was commissioned by the Southern 
	Poverty Law Center, a legal and educational organization 
	located in Montgomery.

1994 - George Foreman, 45, becomes boxing's oldest heavyweight 
	champion by knocking out Michael Moorer in the 10th round 
	of their WBA fight in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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