*               Today in Black History - November 6               *

1746 - Absalom Jones, a major leader of the African American Pioneer
	period, is born into slavery in Sussex, Delaware.  Jones will
	become a friend of Richard Allen and together they will found
	the Free African Society, which would serve as a protective 
	society and social organization for free African Americans.
                             . 
1844 - Spain grants the Dominican Republic its independence.

1868 - Jonathan Gibbs, minister and educator, is appointed Secretary
	of State by the governor of Florida.

1884 - Author and abolitionist William Wells Brown joins the ancestors
	in Chelsea, Massachusetts.  An escaped slave, Brown's 
	autobiography sold 10,000 copies, a record in his day.  Brown 
	also wrote the first known travelogue by an African American 
	and authored the 1853 work "Clotel"; "Or The President's 
	Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States", the 
	first fictional work published by an African American. 

1900 - James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson compose "Lift 
	Ev'ry Voice and Sing."  It will become known as the "Negro
	National Anthem."

1920 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is awarded to W.E.B. Du Bois for 
	"the founding and calling of the Pan African Congress."

1920 - James Weldon Johnson becomes the first African American 
	executive secretary of the NAACP.

1928 - Oscar DePriest is elected to the Seventy-First Congress from 
	Illinois' First Congressional District (Chicago).  Before 
	becoming a U.S. Representative, DePriest was the first African
	American to serve on the Chicago City Council, having been 
	elected alderman of the Second Ward in 1915.  He is the first
	African American to win a seat in the United States House of
	Representatives in the twentieth century. 

1928 - The Atlanta "Daily World" is founded by W.A. Scott Jr.  The 
	newspaper will become a daily in 1933.

1928 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Charles W. Chestnutt,
	the first African American to receive widespread critical 
	recognition as a novelist.  He was cited for his "pioneer work
	as a literary artist depicting the life and struggle of 
	Americans of Negro descent."

1937 - Eugene Pitt is born in Brooklyn, New York.  He will become a 
	rhythm and blues singer with The Genies - "Who's that Knockin'" 
	and lead singer for The Jive Five - "Never Never," "What Time is 
	It?," "I'm a Happy Man" and "My True Story".

1962 - Edward W. Brooke is elected Attorney General of Massachusetts,
	Gerald Lamb is elected Treasurer of Connecticut, and 5 African
	Americans are elected to the House of Representatives.  Augustus 
	"Gus" F. Hawkins, becomes the first African American congressman
	from the West (Los Angeles, California).

1962 - The U.N. General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South
	Africa for its apartheid policies and recommends member states
	apply economic sanctions.

1973 - Coleman Young is elected as the first African American mayor 
	of Detroit, Michigan.

1973 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Wilson C. Riles, 
	the superintendent of public instruction in California, "in 
	recognition of the stature he has attained as a national leader
	in the field of education."

1973 - The Symbionese Liberation Army ambushes Marcus A. Foster, 
	superintendent of public schools in Oakland, California, after
	a Board of Education meeting.  Two members of the group, were
	convicted of the slaying, but one of the men has his conviction
	overturned, based on a legal technicality.

1973 - Thomas Bradley is elected as the first African American mayor
	of Los Angeles, California.  His political success was due to
	his masterful use of multi-racial coalition.  African Americans
	at this time were not a large segment of the Los Angeles
	population.

1976 - FCC Commissioner Benjamin Hooks is elected NAACP executive 
	director by the organization's board of directors, succeeding 
	Roy Wilkins.  He will serve the organization for 16 years, 
	retiring in 1992.  Of his tenure he says, "We have maintained 
	the integrity of this organization and kept our name out front 
	and on the minds of those who would turn back the clock."

1983 - Sgt. Farley Simon, a native of Grenada, becomes the first Marine
	to win the Marine Corps Marathon.

1990 - Harvey Gantt, former mayor of Charlotte, NC, loses his Senate
	race to incumbent Jesse Helms and the opportunity to become the
	first African American senator from the South since 
	Reconstruction.  Barbara-Rose Collins and Maxine Waters are 
	elected to Congress from their home districts in Michigan and 
	California, respectively, while Eleanor Holmes Norton is elected
	as a non-voting delegate from the District of Columbia. 

1990 - Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. 

1992 - Vernon Jordan, along with Warren Christopher, is asked to lead
	the White House transition team, by President-elect William 
	Jefferson Clinton.

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