*               Today in Black History - December 17            *

 

1920 - South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over South

            West Africa.

 

1937 - Art Neville is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.  He will 

            become a member of the popular singing group, "The 

            Neville Brothers." 

 

1939 - Eddie Kendricks is born in Union Springs, Alabama.  He will

            become one of the original members of the Motown group, 

            "The Temptations". He will begin a solo career in 1971 and 

            will have many successful hits such as "Keep on Truckin" 

            and "Boogie Down." In 1982, he will rejoin the Temptations 

            for a reunion tour and again in 1989, when the group is

            inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  He will 

            join the ancestors after succumbing to cancer in 1992.

 

1945 - Ernie Hudson is born in Benton Harbor, Michigan.  He will 

            become an actor and best known for his role in the movie 

            "Ghostbusters." 

 

1971 - Congressman Charles Diggs, Jr. resigns from the United 

            States' delegation to the United Nations in protest of the 

            Nixon administration's policies regarding Africa.

 

1975 - Noble Sissle joins the ancestors in Tampa, Florida at the 

            age of 86. A protege of James Reese Europe, Sissle traveled 

            with the famous bandleader to Europe as the drum major in 

            the 369th Regimental Band and teamed with Eubie Blake to 

            form the writing team of Sissle and Blake.  Together with 

            Flourney Miller and Aubrey Lyles, Sissle and Blake wrote 

            "Shuffle Along" and other musicals.  A founding member of 

            the Negro Actor's Guild, Sissle was a successful orchestra 

            and bandleader in his own right, touring Europe in the 

            1930's and with the USO during World War II.

 

1975 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Henry ("Hank") 

            Aaron "for his memorable home-run record which stands as a

            landmark" and for his sportsmanship.

 

1979 - In a case that aggravates racial tensions, Arthur McDuffie, 

            a Black insurance executive, is fatally beaten after a 

            police chase in Miami.  Four white police officers are 

            later acquitted of charges stemming from McDuffie's death. 

 

1991 - Michael Jordan, outstanding guard for the Chicago Bulls, who

            led his team to their first-ever NBA championship, is named

            the 1991 "Sport Illustrated" Sportsman of the Year.  

            Jordan's likeness will appear on the December 23rd issue of 

            the magazine in the form of a full-color holographic 

            stereogram, a first for a mass-market publication.

 

1999 - Jazz great Grover Washington, Jr. joins the ancestors 

            resulting from a heart attack following a taping session.


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