* Today in Black History - November 3 *
1868 - John W. Menard, of Louisiana, is elected as the African
American representative to Congress. Menard defeats a white
candidate, 5,107 to 2,833, in an election in Louisiana's
Second Congressional District to fill an unexpired term in
the Fortieth Congress.
1874 - James Theodore Holly, an African American who emigrated to
Haiti in 1861, is elected bishop of Haiti.
1883 - Race riots occur in Danville, Virginia, resulting in the death
of four African Americans.
1896 - South Carolina State College is established.
1905 - Artist Lois Mailou Jones is born in Boston, Massachusetts. She
will win her first award in 1926 and have major exhibitions
at the Harmon Foundation, the Salon des Artistes Francais in
Paris, the National Academy of Design, and many others.
Despite her long career, she will not have a major retrospective
of her work until the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston mounts a
show in her honor in 1973. She will join the ancestors on June 9,
1998.
1920 - "Emperor Jones" opens at the Provincetown Theater with Charles
Gilpin in the title role.
1933 - Louis Wade Sullivan is born in Atlanta, Georgia. He will
become the founder and first dean of the Morehouse School of
Medicine and Secretary of Health and Human Services, the
highest-ranking African American in the Bush Administration.
1942 - William L. Dawson is elected to Congress from Chicago.
1942 - Black and white advocates of direct, nonviolent action organized
the Congress of Racial Equality in Chicago. Three CORE members
stage a sit-in at Stoner's Restaurant in Chicago's Loop.
1942 - The Spingarn Medal is presented to Asa Philip Randolph "for
organizing the Sleeping Car Porters under the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters and securing recognition for them; and
because of his fearless, determined mobilization of mass opinion
that resulted in... Executive Order No. 8802, which banned racial
discrimination in defense industries and government work."
1945 - Irving C. Mollison, a Chicago Republican, is sworn in as U.S.
Customs Court judge in New York City.
1945 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Paul Robeson "for
his outstanding achievement in the theater, on the concert
stage, and in the general field of racial welfare."
1949 - Larry Holmes is born in Easton, Pennsylvania. He will become
a professional boxer and world heavyweight champion from 1978
to 1985. During his reign, he will defend his title more
times than any other heavyweight in history, with the exception
of Joe Louis.
1953 - Jeffrey Banks is born in Washington, DC. He will become an
influential fashion designer and the youngest designer to win
the prestigious Coty Award, for his outstanding fur designs.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of the NBA San Francisco Warriors, scores 72
points vs the Los Angeles Lakers.
1964 - John Conyers, Jr. is elected to the House of Representatives
from Detroit, Michigan.
1970 - Twelve African Americans are elected to the Ninety-second
Congress, including five new congressmen: Ralph H. Metcalfe
(Illinois), George Collins (Illinois), Charles Rangel (New
York), Ronald Dellums (California), and Parren Mitchell
(Maryland).
1970 - Wilson Riles is elected as the first African American
superintendent of Public Instruction in California.
1970 - Richard Austin is elected as the first African American secretary
of state in Michigan.
1974 - Harold G. Ford is elected U.S. Congressman from Tennessee.
1978 - Dominica is granted its independence by the Great Britain.
1979 - Klansmen fire on an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, North
Carolina, and kill five persons.
1981 - Coleman Young is re-elected mayor of Detroit. Thurman L. Milner
is elected mayor of Hartford, Connecticut. James Chase is
elected mayor of Spokane, Washington.
1983 - Reverend Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for President
of the United States. Although unsuccessful in this and a later
1988 campaign, Jackson will win many Democratic state primaries.
His candidacy will win him national attention and a platform for
increased representation by African Americans in the Democratic
Party.
1992 - Carol Moseley Braun is the first African American woman to be
elected to the U.S. Senate.
1992 - James Clyburn is the first African American to represent South
Carolina since Reconstruction. He had previously served for
18 years as South Carolina's Human Affairs Commissioner.
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