* Today in Black History - November 28 *
1871 - The Ku Klux Klan trials begin in Federal District Court in South
Carolina.
1907 - Artist Charles Alston is born in Charlotte, North Carolina.
After studying at Columbia University and Pratt Institute, he
will travel to Europe and the Caribbean, execute murals for
Harlem Hospital and Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company
in Los Angeles, earning the National Academy of Design Award,
and the First Award of the Atlanta University Collection's 1942
show for his watercolor painting, "Farm Boy". As a teacher, he
will teach at the Harlem Community Art Center, Harlem Art
Workshop, and Pennsylvania State University. He will be an
associate professor of painting at The City University of New
York and a muralist for the WPA during the Depression. His two-
panel mural of that period, "Magic and Medicine," can be seen at
Harlem Hospital.
1929 - Berry Gordy is born in Detroit, Michigan. He will become the
the founder and president of Motown Records, the most successful
African American-owned record company. Gordy's "Motown Sound"
will become synonymous with the 1960's and will launch the
careers of Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Temptations, Stevie
Wonder, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Jackson Five, and
many others.
1942 - Richard Wright, author of "Native Son" and "Black Boy", dies in
Paris, France at the age of 52.
1942 - Paul Warfield, NFL/WFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, Miami
Dolphins, Memphis Southmen), is born.
1958 - Chad, Congo, and & Mauritania become autonomous members of the
French World Community.
1960 - Mauritania gains independence from France.
1961 - The Downtown Athletic Club awards the Heisman Trophy to Ernie
Davis, a halfback from Syracuse University. He is the first
African American to win the award.
1966 - A coup occurs in Burundi overthrowing the monarchy. A republic
is declared as a replacement form of government.
1981 - Pam McAllister Johnson is named as publisher of Gannett's Ithaca
(New York) Journal. She is the first African American woman to
head a general circulation newspaper in the United States.
1992 - In King William's Town, South Africa, four people are killed,
about 20 injured, when black militant gunmen attack a country
club.
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