* Today in Black History - November 24 *
1868 - Scott Joplin, originator of ragtime music, is born in
Northeast Texas. He will earn a living as a piano teacher.
He will teach future ragtime composers Arthur Marshall,
Scott Hayden and Brun Campbell. He will began publishing
music in 1895, and publication of his Maple Leaf Rag in
1899 will bring him fame. This piece had a profound
influence on subsequent writers of ragtime. It will also
bring the composer a steady income for life, though he
did not reach this level of success again and frequently
had financial problems. He will move to St. Louis in 1901,
where he will continue to compose and publish music, and
regularly perform in the St Louis community. The score to
his first opera, "A Guest of Honor" was confiscated in
1903 with his belongings because of a non-payment of
bills, and is now considered lost. He will continue to
compose and publish music, and in 1907 move to New York
City to find a producer for a new opera. He will attempt
to go beyond the limitations of the musical form that made
him famous, without much monetary success. His second
opera, "Treemonisha," was not received well at its
partially staged performance in 1915. He will join the
ancestors on April 1, 1917. His transition is widely
considered to mark the end of ragtime as a mainstream music
format, and in the next several years it will evolve with
other styles into stride, jazz, and eventually big band
swing. His music will be rediscovered and returned to
popularity in the early 1970s with the release of a million-
selling album recorded by Joshua Rifkin. This will be
followed by the Academy Award–winning 1973 movie "The Sting"
that will feature several of his compositions including "The
Entertainer". The opera "Treemonisha" will be finally
produced in full to wide acclaim in 1972. In 1976, He will
be posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Editor's Note:
There is no official record of Scott Joplin's birth. We use
November 24, 1868, from the inscription on his tombstone.
1874 - Stephen A. Swails is re-elected president pro tem of the
South Carolina State Senate.
1874 - Robert B. Elliott is elected Speaker of the lower house
of the South Carolina legislature.
1880 - Southern University is established in New Orleans,
Louisiana.
1880 - More than 150 delegates from Baptist Churches in eleven
states organize the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention
of the United States at a meeting in Montgomery,
Alabama. The Rev. William H. McAlphine is elected
president.
1883 - Edwin Bancroft Henderson is born in Washington, DC. He will
become a pioneering physical education instructor,
coach, and organizer of the Negro Athletic Association,
and the Colored Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association. He
is widely recognized as the "Grandfather of Black Basketball,"
introduced basketball in Washington, D.C. in 1904 to
African Americans on a wide scale, organized basis. Given
that African American players dominate the game of basketball
today, it seems difficult to overstate the importance of the
role that he played in basketball history. Inducted into the
Black Sports Hall of Fame in 1974, he will be widely
considered "the Father of Black Sports." He will join the
ancestors on February 3, 1977.
1935 - Ronald Vernie Dellums is born in Oakland, California. He
will become a Berkeley city councilman, where he will be
a vocal champion for minority and disadvantaged communities.
In 1970, he will stage a successful campaign for the 9th
district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Among his
leadership roles will be Chairman of the District of Columbia
Committee. From 1971 to 1998, he will be elected to thirteen
terms as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from
Northern California's 9th Congressional District, after which
he will work as a lobbyist in Washington D.C. He will serve
as Oakland's forty-eighth (and third African-American) mayor
from January 8, 2007 to January 3, 2011.
1938 - Oscar Robertson is born in Charlotte, Tennessee. He will
attend the University of Cincinnati, where he will be a
two-time NCAA Player of the Year and three-time All-
American. He will go on to play for fourteen years in
the NBA (Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks) and earn
All-NBA honors 11 times and lead the Royals and the Bucks
to ten playoff berths. Robinson, along with Lew Alcinder
(Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), will lead the Bucks to their only
NBA Championship. Robertson will conclude his career
with 26,710 points (25.7 per game), 9,887 assists (9.5
per game) and 7,804 rebounds (7.5 per game). He will be
voted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1979, following
his retirement in 1974 and be voted one of "The 50
Greatest Players in NBA History."
2015 - Baseball legend Willie Mays and the late Shirley Chisholm,
the first African American woman elected to the United
States' Congress, are honored with the nation's highest
civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
President Barack Obama will bestow the awards at a White
House ceremony.
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