*		  Today in Black History - October 5            *

1867 - Monroe Baker, a well-to-do African American businessman, 
	is named mayor of St. Martin, Louisiana.  He is probably 
	the first African American to serve as mayor of a town.

1872 - Booker T. Washington leaves Malden, West Virginia to enter
	Hampton Institute. 

1878 - George B. Vashion joins the ancestors after succumbing to 
	yellow fever in Rodney, Mississippi. He was the first 
	African American lawyer in the state of New York and an 
	educator and poet whose most famous work was "Victor Oge"
	(1854), the first narrative, nonlyrical poem by an 
	African American writer. 

1929 - Autherine Lucy (later Foster) is born in Shiloh, Alabama. 
	She will be the first African American student to enroll 
	at the University of Alabama (1956). 

1932 - Perle Yvonne Watson is born in Los Angeles, California. As
	Yvonne Braithwaite, she will serve as staff attorney on 
	the McCone Commission investigating the causes of the 
	Watts riots and will become the first African American 
	woman elected to the California state assembly, as well 
	as the first African American woman elected to the House 
	of Representatives.  She also will be the first woman to
	sit on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors as a 
	result of an appointment by Governor Brown.  Some years 
	later, she will become the first woman elected to the Los
	Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

1985 - Grambling's coach Eddie Robinson wins his record 324th 
	college football game.

1992 - Eddie Kendrick, one of the original members of the Motown 
	group, The Temptations, joins the ancestors after 
	succumbing to lung cancer.

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