*                 Today in Black History - December 20             *

1854 - Walter F. Craig is born in Princeton, New Jersey.  He will
        become a violinist, organizer of Craig's Celebrated Orchestra,
        and, in 1886, the first African American to be admitted to the
        Musician's Protective Union.

1870 - Robert H. Wood, Mississippi political leader, is elected mayor of
        Natchez.

1870 - HBCUs Allen University, Benedict College and LeMoyne-Owen College
        are established.

1870 - Jefferson F. Long of Macon, Georgia, is elected to an unexpired
        term in the Forty-first Congress.  Georgia Democrats carried state
        election with a campaign of violence and political intimidation.

1893 - Paul Lawrence Dunbar publishes "Oak and Ivy."  Unable to afford
        the $125 publishing costs, he accepts a loan from a white
        friend.  The loan will be quickly repaid through book sales,
        often to passengers in the elevator of the Dayton, Ohio,
        building where he worked.

1893 - The first state anti-lynching statute is approved in Georgia.

1938 - Mattie Alou is born.  He will become a professional baseball
        player like his brother Felipe.  He will play for the San
        Francisco Giants.

1942  - Robert "Bob" Hayes is born in Florida.  He will become a world
        class sprinter for the United States, winning the Gold Medal in
        the 100 meter dash in the 1964 Olympic games.

1956 - The African American community of Montgomery, Alabama votes
        unanimously to end its 385 day bus-boycott.  Montgomery, Alabama,
        removes race-based seat assignments on its city's buses.

1981 - "Dreamgirls" opens on Broadway at the Imperial Theater.  The
        musical, which chronicles the rise of a black female group in
        the 1960's, star Jennifer Holliday, Ben Harney, and Cleavant
        Derricks.  Holliday, Derricks and choreographer Michael Peters
        will earn Tony awards for their work in the musical.

1988 - Max Robinson, the first African American network (ABC) TV anchor,
        dies of the complications of AIDS at the age of 49.

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