*             Today in Black History - December 13             *

 

1903 - Ella Baker is born in Norfolk, Virginia.  A civil rights 

            worker who will direct the New York branch of the NAACP, 

            Baker will become executive director of the Southern 

            Christian Leadership Conference in the 1960's during 

            student integration of lunch counters in the southern 

            states.  She also will play a key role in the formation 

            of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and its

            voter registration drive in Mississippi.  She will join

            the ancestors on December 13, 1986 in New York City.

 

1913 - Archibald Lee Wright is born in Benoit, Mississippi.  

            Better known as Archie Moore, he will become a boxer and 

            win the light heavyweight crown in 1952.  He will reign 

            as champion until 1960.

 

1924 - Larry Doby is born in Camden, South Carolina.  He will 

            become the first African American in baseball's American 

            League, playing for the Cleveland Indians. He will be the 

            1954 RBI leader. His career statistics include a .283 

            career average with 253 home runs and 970 RBI in 1533 

            games. He will hit at least 20 homers in each season from

            1949-56, leading the league in 1952 (32) and 1954 (32), 

            and appearing between the top ten leaders in seven seasons 

            (1949, 1951-56). He will hit for the cycle (1952), and 

            also lead the league in runs in 1952 (104), RBI in 1954 

            (126), on base percentage in 1950 (.442), slugging average 

            in 1952 (.541), and OPS in 1950 (.986). He will join the

            ancestors on June 18, 2003 in Montclair, New Jersey.

 

1944 - The first African American women complete officer training 

            for the WAVES (Women's Auxiliary Volunteers for Emergency 

            Service).  They had been admitted to the corps two months 

            earlier.

 

1958 - Tim Moore, an actor best known for his portrayal of 

            Kingfish on the Amos 'n' Andy television show, joins the 

            ancestors at the age of 70.

 

1981 - Popular African American comedian Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham 

            joins the ancestors after a stroke at the age of 75.  He 

            became famous in mainstream America, late in his life for 

            his "here comes de judge" routine popularized in 

            television's "Laugh-In." 

 

1989 - President De Klerk of South Africa meets with imprisoned 

            Nelson Mandela, at de Klerk's office in Cape Town, to talk 

            about the end of apartheid.

 

1997 - Charles Woodson, of the University of Michigan, is awarded 

            the Heisman Trophy.  He is the first defensive player ever 

            to win the coveted prize.


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