*            Today in Black History - November 15           *

 

218  - Hannibal, North African military genius, crosses the 

BC       Alps with elephants and 26,000 men in an expedition 

            to capture Rome. 

 

1805 - Explorers Lewis and Clark reach the mouth of the 

            Columbia River. Accompanying them on their expedition 

            is a slave named York, who, while technically Clark's 

            valet, distinguished himself as a scout, interpreter, 

            and emissary to the Native Americans encountered on 

            the expedition. 

 

1825 - African American feminist, Sarah Jane Woodson, is born 

            in Chillicothe, Ohio. 

 

1884 - The Berlin Conference, of European nations, is organized 

            by German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck to decide issues 

            regarding the colonization of Africa.  The Europeans 

            attending the conference, decide which parts of the 

            African continent would be "owned" by the participants, 

            "allowing" only Liberia and Ethiopia to remain free 

            countries.  Representatives from Great Britain, France, 

            Germany, Portugal, and Belgium negotiate their claims 

            to African territory and establish a framework for 

            making and negotiating future claims. Obviously, there 

            is no one representing Africans at this conference. By 

            1900, nearly 90 percent of African territory will be 

            claimed by European states.       

 

1887 - Granville T. Woods receives a patent for the Synchronous 

            Multiplier Railway Telegraph.

 

1897 - Langston University, a public co-educational institution, 

            is founded in Langston, Oklahoma.

 

1897 - Voorhees College, a private co-educational institution 

            affiliated with the Episcopal Church, is founded in 

            Denmark, South Carolina.

 

1897 - John Mercer Langston joins the ancestors at the age of 

            67, in Washington, DC.

 

1928 - Roland Hayes opens his fifth American Tour at New York's 

            Carnegie Hall packed with admirers.

 

1930 - Whitman Mayo, actor (Grady -"Sanford & Son"), is born in 

            New York City.

 

1937 - Yaphet Kotto, actor ("Brubaker", "Alien", "Raid on 

            Entebbe", "Eye of the Tiger", "Roots", "Live and Let 

            Die", "Midnight Run", and TV's "Homicide"), is born in 

            New York City.

 

1950 - Dr. Arthur Dorrington, a dentist, becomes the first 

            African American in organized hockey to suit up, a 

            member of the Atlantic City Seagulls of the Eastern 

            Amateur Hockey League.

 

1960 - Elgin Baylor, of the Los Angeles Lakers scores 71 points 

            against the New York Knicks.

 

1969 - The Amistad Research Center is incorporated as an 

            independent archive, library, & museum dedicated to 

            preserving African American & ethnic history and culture.  

            The center collects original source materials on the 

            history of the nation's ethnic minorities and race 

            relations in the United States (over 10 million 

            documents).  The Amistad was organized by the Race 

            Relations Department of Fisk University and the American

            Missionary Association in 1966.  The library is now 

            located in Tilton Hall on the campus of Tulane University 

            in New Orleans, Louisiana. 

 

1976 - The Plains Baptist Church, home church of President Jimmy 

            Carter, votes to admit African American worshipers.  The 

            church had been under pressure to admit African Americans 

            since Reverend Clennon King had announced his intentions 

            to join the congregation. 

 

1979 - The Nobel Prize in economics is awarded to Professor 

            Arthur Lewis of Princeton University.  He is the first 

            African American to receive the coveted prize in a 

            category other than peace.

 

1979 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is awarded to Rosa L. Parks, who 

            was the Catalyst in the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott

            of 1955-56.

 

1989 - President George Bush signs a bill to rename a Houston, 

            Texas, federal building after George Thomas "Mickey" 

            Leland, the Houston congressman who died in a plane crash 

            earlier in the year. 

 

1998 - Kwame Ture succumbs to prostate cancer in Guinea and joins 

            the ancestors at age 57.  He was born Stokely Carmichael 

            in the country of Trinidad (1941) and in 1966 coined the 

            phrase, "Black Power."


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