*               Today in Black History - December 3              *

1841 - Abolitionist Charles Lenox Remond returns to the United States
        after a year and a half in Great Britain.  He had been serving
        as a delegate to the world Anti-Slavery Convention in London.
        He brings with him an "Address from the People of Ireland"
        including 60,000 signatures urging Irish-Americans to "oppose
        slavery by peaceful means and to insist upon liberty for all
        regardless of color, creed, or country."

1843 - The Society of Colored People in Baltimore, is the first African
        American Catholic association whose documentation has been
        preserved. Their notebook will begin today and continue until
        September 7, 1845.

1847 - Frederick Douglass and Martin R. Delaney begin the publication
        of "The North Star" newspaper, one of the leading abolitionist
        newspapers of its day.

1864 - The Twenty-Fifth Corps, the largest all African American unit in
        the history of the U.S. Army, is established by General Order
        # 297 of the War Department, Adjutant General's Office.  The
        Colored Troops of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina
        were organized into the Twenty-Fifth Corps under the command of
        Major General G. Weitzel.

1866 - John Swett Rock, a Massachusetts lawyer and dentist joins the
        ancestors.  He had become the first African American certified
        to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.  Chief Justice Salmon
        P. Chase appointed Dr. Rock to present cases before the Supreme
        Court on December 31, 1865.

1868 - The trial of ex-Confederacy president, Jefferson Davis starts,
        marking the first United States trial with African Americans
        included in the jury.

1883 - The Forty-Eighth Congress (1883-85) convenes. Only Two African
        Americans are included as representatives.  They are James E.
        O'Hara of North Carolina and Robert Smalls of South Carolina.

1883 - George L. Ruffin is appointed a city judge in Boston, Massachusetts.

1922 - Ralph Gardner is born in Cleveland, Ohio.  He will become a pioneer
        chemist whose research into plastics leads to the development of
        so-called "hard plastics."  His innovations in the manipulation of
        catalytic chemicals will lead to the products for the petrochemical
        and pharmaceutical industries as well as plastics.

1951 - President Truman names a committee to monitor compliance with
        anti-discrimination provisions in U.S. government contracts and
        sub-contracts.

1956 - Wilt Chamberlain plays in his first collegiate basketball game
        and scores 52 points.

1962 - Edith Spurlock Sampson is sworn in as the first African American
        woman judge.

1964 - The Spingarn Medal is presented to NAACP executive secretary Roy
        Wilkins for his contribution to "the advancement of the American
        people and the national purpose."

1964 - The Independence Bank of Chicago is organized.

1964 - J. Raymond Jones is elected leader of the New York Democratic
        organization (Tammany Hall).

1970 - Jennifer Josephine Hosten become the first African American Miss
        World.

1979 - An University of Southern California running back, Charles
        White, is named the Heisman Trophy winner for 1979.  White,
        who gained a career regular season total of 5,598 yards, will
        play professionally for the Los Angeles Rams.

1982 - Thomas Hearns unifies the world boxing titles in the junior
        middleweight division by capturing the WBC title over Wilfredo
        Benitez.

1988 - Barry Sanders wins the Heisman Trophy.

1988 - In South Africa, 11 black funeral mourners are slain in Natal
        Province in an attack blamed on security forces.

1990 - "Black Art - Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African
        American Art" opens at the Dallas Museum of Art.  United States
        and Caribbean artists represented among the more than 150 works
        include Richmond Barthe', John Biggers, Aaron Douglas, Malvin
        Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, and Houston Conwill.

1997 - President Clinton hosts his first town hall meeting on America's
        race relations in Akron, Ohio.

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