* Today in Black History - November 29 *
1905 - The Chicago Defender, an African American newspaper,
begins publication.
1907 - Thomas C. Fleming is born in Jacksonville, Florida. He
will become the co-founder of the San Francisco Sun
Reporter, an African American weekly newspaper. Mr.
Fleming will be active, as a writer for the paper,
from its inception in 1944 through the end of the
century. He will chronicle his life as an African in
America through his series, "Reflections on Black
History," published in his 90's, while still active as
a journalist with his beloved Sun Reporter. He will join
the ancestors on November 21, 2006.
1908 - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. is born in New Haven,
Connecticut. Son of the famed minister of Harlem's
Abyssinian Baptist Church, the younger Powell will be
a civil rights activist, using mass meetings and
strikes to force employment reforms. In 1944, Powell
will be elected to Congress and begin what will be
considered a controversial congressional career. Among
his early actions will be the desegregation of eating
facilities in the House and an unrelenting fight to end
discrimination in the armed forces, employment, housing,
and transportation. Later in his career, his
questionable activities while chairman of the Committee
on Education and Labor will result in his expulsion
from Congress, re-election and eventual return to his
seat. He will join the ancestors on April 4, 1972.
1915 - William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn is born in Miami Valley
Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. He will write his first
song, "Lush Life," when he is 16 while working as a
soda jerk in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He will join
Duke Ellington as a co-composer, assistant arranger,
and pianist, where he will collaborate with Ellington
for 29 years on some of the band's greatest hits.
Among Strayhorn's compositions will be "Satin Doll,"
and "Take the 'A' Train." He will join the ancestors
on May 31, 1967 of esophageal cancer at the age of 51.
1935 - Two-term congressman from North Carolina, Henry Plummer
Cheatham joins the ancestors in Oxford, North Carolina.
Cheatham was the only African American member of
Congress during the 1890 term.
1943 - David Bing is born in Washington, DC. He will be
selected No. 2 in the 1966 NBA draft by the Detroit
Pistons, and play 12 years in the NBA. He will be
inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame in 1990, and named
one of the top 50 basketball players of all time.
1961 - Freedom Riders are attacked by white mob at bus station
in McComb, Mississippi.
1964 - Don Cheadle is born in Kansas City, Missouri. He will
become an actor and star in movies such as "Boogie
Nights", "Rebound", "Hamburger Hill", and "Devil in a
Blue Dress". He will also be successful on the small
screen in "Picket Fences", "Golden Palace" and a
variety of guest appearances.
1989 - The space shuttle Discovery lands after completing a
secret military mission. The mission was led by Air
Force Colonel Frederick D. Gregory, the first African
American commander of a space shuttle mission.
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