*                Today in Black History - December 11           *

 

1872 - America's first African American governor takes office as 

            Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback became acting governor 

            of Louisiana. 

 

1916 - John E. Bush, former slave and teacher, joins the 

            ancestors. He had been appointed receiver of the United 

            States Land Office in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1898. 

 

1917 - 13 African American soldiers are hanged for alleged 

            participation in a Houston riot.

 

1917 - The Great Jazz migration begins as Joe Oliver leaves New 

            Orleans and settles in Chicago, to be joined later by 

            other stars.

 

1917 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Harry T. 

            Burleigh, composer and accomplished opera singer, for 

            excellence in the field of music.

 

1926 - Willie Mae Thornton is born in Montgomery, Alabama.  She 

            will be better known as "Big Mama" Thornton, a blues 

            singer whose recording of "Hound Dog" in 1952 will be 

            mimicked by Elvis Presley, much to his success.  She 

            also recorded the hits "Ball & Chain," and "Stronger 

            than Dirt." She will join the ancestors on July 25, 1984.

 

1928 - Lewis Latimore joins the ancestors in Flushing, New York.  

            Employed as a chief draftsman, Mr. Latimore created the 

            drawings for Alexander Graham Bell's telephone in 1870.

 

1931 - The British Statute of Westminster gives complete 

            legislative independence to South Africa.

 

1940 - Lev T. Mills, who will become an artist and chairman of 

            the art department at Spelman College, is born in 

            Tallahassee, Florida.  His prints and mixed-media works 

            will be collected by the Victoria & Albert and British 

            Museums in London and the High Museum in Atlanta and 

            include glass mosaic murals for an Atlanta subway station 

            and the atrium floor of Atlanta's City Hall.

 

1954 - Jermaine Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana.  He will become 

            a singer and musician with his brothers and perform with 

            their group, The Jackson Five.

 

1961 - U.S. Supreme Court reverses the conviction of sixteen 

            sit-in students who had been arrested in Baton Rouge, 

            Louisiana.

 

1961 - Langston Hughes' musical, "Black Nativity," opens on 

            Broadway.

 

1964 - Sam Cooke joins the ancestors after being killed.  Bertha 

            Franklin, Manager of the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles, 

            claimed she killed the singer in self-defense after he'd 

            tried to rape a 22-year-woman and then turned on Franklin. 

 

1980 - George Rogers, a running back for the University of South 

            Carolina, is awarded the Heisman Trophy.  He achieved 21

            consecutive 100-yard games with the gamecocks and led the 

            nation in rushing.

 

1981 - Muhammad Ali's boxes in his 61st & last fight, losing to 

            Trevor Berbick.


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