* Today in Black History - November 5 *
1828 - Theodore Sedgwick Wright becomes the first African American
person to get a Theology Degree in the United States, when he
graduates from Princeton Theological Seminary.
1867 - First Reconstruction constitutional convention opens in
Montgomery, Alabama. It has eighteen African Americans and
ninety whites in attendance.
1901 - Etta Moten (later Barnett) is born in San Antonio, Texas. She
will become an actress starring in "Porgy and Bess" and have
a successful career on Broadway. She will appear in the
movie "Flying Down to Rio"(1933), singing and dancing the
Carioca, and as a singer in "The Gold Diggers of 1933"(1933).
In her later years, she will be active as an Advisory Board
Member of The Black Academy of Arts and Letters.
1917 - The Supreme Court (Buchanan vs Warley) rules that a Louisville,
Kentucky, ordinance mandating blacks and whites live in
separate areas is unconstitutional.
1926 - Negro History Week is initiated by Carter G. Woodson.
1931 - Ike Turner is born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He will become
a singer, songwriter/pianist and will join forces in 1960 with
his wife, Tina Turner. Tina will later divorce Ike and become
a successful solo act.
1935 - The Maryland Court of Appeals orders the University of Maryland
to admit African American student, Donald Murray.
1956 - Art Tatum, joins the ancestors at age 46 in Los Angeles,
California. Despite impaired vision, he received formal
training in music and developed a unique improvisational style.
He was an accomplished jazz pianist who impressed even classicist
Vladimir Horowitz. Perhaps the most gifted technician of all
jazzmen, Tatum had other assets as well, among them an harmonic
sense so acute as to make him an almost infallible improviser.
This aspect of his style, as well as his great rhythmic freedom,
influenced the young players who became the founders of a new
style called bebop.
1956 - The Nat King Cole Show premiers. The 15-minute show starring
the popular singer will run until June 1957 and reappear in
July in a half-hour format. The first network variety series
hosted by an African American star, it was canceled due to
lack of support by advertisers.
1968 - Eight African American males and the first African American
female, Shirley Chisholm, are elected to the U.S. Congress.
Including previously elected Massachusetts senator Edward
Brooke, it is the largest number of African American
representatives to serve in Congress since the 44th Congress
of 1875-1877.
1970 - The National Guard is mobilized in Henderson, North Carolina,
as a result of racially motivated civil disturbances.
1974 - George Brown of Colorado and Mervyn Dymally of California are
the first African American lieutenant governors elected in
the 20th century, while Walter Washington becomes the first
African American to be elected mayor of the District of
Columbia, and Harold Ford is elected to Congress from
Tennessee, the first African American from the state.
1974 - The Spingarn Medal is awarded to Damon J. Keith "in tribute to
his steadfast defense of constitutional principles as revealed
in a series of memorable decisions he handed down as a United
States District Court judge."
1989 - The first memorial to the civil rights movement in the United
States is dedicated at a ceremony in Montgomery, Alabama. The
memorial was commissioned by the Southern Poverty Law Center,
a legal and educational organization located in Montgomery.
1994 - George Foreman, 45, becomes boxing's oldest heavyweight champion
by knocking out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA
fight in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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