* Today in Black History - December 7 *
1874 - White Democrats kill seventy-five Republicans in a massacre at
Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1885 - The Forty-Ninth Congress (1885-87) is convened. Two African
American congressmen, James E. O'Hara of North Carolina and
Robert Smalls of South Carolina are in attendance.
1931 - Comer Cottrell is born in Mobile, Alabama. In 1970, he will
become founder and president of Pro-line Corporation, the
largest African American-owned business in the southwest, which
he will start with $ 600 and a borrowed typewriter. An
entrepreneur with a wide range of interests, Cottrell will
also become the first African American to own a part of a
major league baseball team, the Texas Rangers, in 1989.
1941 - During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dorie Miller of
Waco, Texas, a messman aboard the battleship Arizona who had
never been instructed in firearms, heroically downs three
Japanese planes before being ordered to leave the ship. Miller
will be awarded the Navy Cross for his bravery.
1941 - The Downtown Gallery in New York City presents the exhibit
"American Negro Art, 19th and 20th Century". Included in the
exhibit is work by Robert Duncanson, Horace Pippin, Eldzier
Cortor, Richmond Barte' and others.
1941 - Lester Granger is named executive director of the National Urban
League.
1941 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to novelist Richard
Wright, "one of the most powerful of contemporary writer," for
"his powerful depiction in his books, 'Uncle Tom's Children,'
and 'Native Son,' of the effect of proscription, segregation
and denial of opportunities to the American Negro."
1942 - Reginald F. Lewis is born in Baltimore, Maryland. He will receive
his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1968. He will
eventually become a partner in Murphy, Thorpe & Lewis, the first
African American law firm on Wall Street. In 1989, he will
become president and CEO of TLC Beatrice International Holding
Inc. With TLC's leverage acquisition of Beatrice International
Food Company, Lewis becomes the head of the largest African
American-owned business in the United States. TLC Beatrice had
revenues of $1.54 billion in 1992. He will join the ancestors in
January, 1993, succumbing to brain cancer.
1972 - W. Sterling Cary is elected president of the Nation Council of
Churches.
1978 - Billy Sims is awarded the Heisman Trophy at the annual awards
dinner sponsored by the Downtown Athletic Club. The running
back from the University of Oklahoma is the sixth junior to
win the award.
1981 - John Jacobs is named president of the National Urban League.
1985 - Bo Jackson of Auburn University wins the Heisman Trophy.
1990 - Rhythm and Blues artist, Dee Clark, joins the ancestors in Smyrna,
Georgia at the age of 52.
1993 - The South African transitional executive council is set up.
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