*               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.

 

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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