*             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 1959 and again in 1961. His will be one
	of the longest professional careers in the history of 
	boxing. In 2002, he will be inducted into the St. Louis 
	Walk of Fame. In 2006, he will become a California Boxing 
	Hall of Fame Inductee and Ring Magazine will name him 
	boxing's fourth Ring Magazine Best Punchers of all time 
	in 2003. He will join the ancestors on December 9, 1998. 
	He still holds the record for the most career knockouts 
	by any boxer, at 145. 

1924 - Lawrence Eugene "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 be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame 
	in 1998. 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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