* Today in Black History - November 17 *
1842 - Fugitive slave George Latimer, is captured in Boston.
His capture leads to the first of the fugitive slave
cases which strain relationships between the North and
South. Boston abolitionists will raise money to purchase
Latimer from his slave owner.
1911 - Omega Psi Phi Fraternity is founded on the campus of
Howard University.
1945 - Elvin Hayes, NBA star and Basketball Hall of Famer - "The
Big E" (San Diego, Houston Rockets, Baltimore Bullets;
5th on list of most games played in ABA/NBA; University
of Houston, All America in 1967 and 1968), is born.
1956 - Fullback Jim Brown of Syracuse University scores 43 pts
against Colgate, establishing a NCAA record.
1967 - Ronnie DeVoe, rhythm and blues singer (New Edition; Bell
Biv DeVoe), is born.
1978 - Two FBI agents testify before the House Select Committee
on Assassinations that the bureau's long-term
surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was based
solely on J. Edgar Hoover's "hatred of the civil rights
leader" and not on the civil rights leader's alleged
communist influences or linkages with radical groups.
1980 - Howard University's WHMM-TV starts broadcasting. It is
the first African American-owned public-broadcasting
television station.
1990 - Itabari Njeri receives the American Book Award for
Outstanding Contribution in American Literature for her
book, "Every Good-bye Ain't Gone." Also honored is poet
Sonia Sanchez, who receives a lifetime achievement award.
1998 - Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) is elected as
chairperson of the Congressional Black Caucus. He is the
first Southerner to head the group, since it was founded
in 1971. He had been first elected to Congress in 1992,
the first African American to represent South Carolina
since Reconstruction.
1998 - Esther Rolle, the Emmy Award-winning actress, who won
acclaim on the hit CBS sitcom "Good Times" as well as on
stage and in the movies, joins the ancestors at her home
in Los Angeles, at the age of 78.
2006 - Ruth Brown, the gutsy Rhythm and Blues singer whose career
extended to acting and crusading for musicians’ rights,
joins the ancestors in Las Vegas at the age of 78
succumbing to complications of a heart attack and stroke
following surgery.
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