* Today in Black History - November 4 *
1872 - Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback is elected as a U.S.
congressman from Louisiana.
1872 - Three African Americans are elected to major offices in
Louisiana elections: C.C Antoine, lieutenant governor;
P.G. Deslonde, secretary of state; W.B. Brown,
superintendent of public education.
1879 - T. Elkins receives a patent on the refrigeration
apparatus.
1882 - Robert Lewis "Bob" Douglas is born in Saint Kitts, British
West Indies. He will be the founder of the New York
Renaissance basketball team. He will be nicknamed the
"Father of Black Professional Basketball", He will own
and coach the Rens from 1923 to 1949, guiding them to a
2,318-381 record (.859). He will be inducted into the
Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor in 1972, becoming
the first African American to be enshrined. The Rens will
barnstorm throughout the United States, mostly in the
Midwest, and play any team that would schedule them, black
or white. Traveling as far as 200 miles for a game, they
will often sleep on the bus and eat cold meals, as they
are barred from many hotels and restaurants by Jim Crow
laws and the norms of racial discrimination prevailing in
the northern United States at the time. The Rens will
become a dominant team, winning as many as 88 consecutive
games during the 1932–33 season. In the twenties and early
thirties, their matches with the Original Celtics will be
basketball's greatest gate attraction. They will win the
World Professional Basketball Tournament in 1939, lose to
the eventual champion Harlem Globetrotters in 1940, and
finish second to the National Basketball League champion
Minneapolis Lakers in 1948. He will join the ancestors on
July 16, 1979.
1953 - Hulan Jack becomes first African American Manhattan
Borough President in New York City.
1958 - World renowned opera singer, Shirley Verrett, makes her
debut in New York City.
1959 - Ernie Banks, Chicago Cubs shortstop, wins the National
League MVP.
1969 - Howard N. Lee and Charles Evers are elected the first
African American mayors of Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
and Fayette, Mississippi respectively.
1971 - Elgin Baylor announces his retirement from the Los
Angeles Lakers. After 14 years in the NBA, Baylor had
scored 23,149 points, the third highest in the league,
and was the fifth-highest career rebounder.
1978 - William Howard Jr. is elected president of the National
Council of Churches, at the age of 32.
1982 - Rayford Logan joins the ancestors in Washington, DC. He
was an educator, historian, and author of numerous books
on African Americans, including the "Dictionary of
American Negro Biography." Among his honors was a 1980
NAACP Spingarn Medal.
1988 - Bill and Camille Cosby make a $20 million gift to Spelman
College. In his remarks to newly inaugurated President
Johnetta B. Cole, Cosby states, "I want Johnetta Cole to
understand the love that Camille and I have for this
college, the love we have for women who, in spite of odds
against them, come to this school to challenge themselves,
to challenge the school, then to challenge what we call
'the outside world.'"
1988 - The Martin L. King, Jr. Federal Building is dedicated in
Atlanta, Georgia. It is the first federal building in the
nation to bear the name of the slain civil rights leader.
1999 - Daisy Bates, who is best known for counseling the "Little
Rock Nine," joins the ancestors at the age of 84. The
"Little Rock Nine" were the students who broke the color
barrier at all-white Central High School in Little Rock,
Arkansas in 1957, Her leadership helped to inch America
toward desegregated schools. She had dedicated her entire
life to service in the civil rights struggle.
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