*               Today in Black History - November 26              *

1866 - Rust College is founded in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

1872 - Macon B. Allen is elected judge of the Lower Court of
        Charleston, South Carolina.  Allen, the first African American
        lawyer, becomes the second African American to hold a major
        judicial position and the first African American with a major
        judicial position on the municipal level.

1883 - Sojourner Truth, women's rights advocate, poet, and freedom
        fighter, joins the ancestors in Battle Creek, Michigan.

1890 - Savannah State College is founded in Savannah, Georgia.

1968 - O.J. Simpson is named Heisman Trophy winner for 1968. A running
        back for the University of Southern California, Simpson amassed
        a total of 3,187 yards in 18 games and scored 33 touchdowns
        in two seasons. He will play professional football with the
        Buffalo Bills and the San Francisco 49ers and be equally well
        known as a sportscaster and actor.

1970 - Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. the first African American general, joins
        the ancestors at the age of 93 in Chicago, Illinois.

1970 - Charles Gordone is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his play, "No
        Place To Go."

1970 - Painter, Jacob Lawrence is awarded the Spingarn Medal "in
        tribute to the compelling power of his work which has opened to
        the world...a window on the Negro's condition in the United
        States" and "in salute to his unswerving commitment" to the
        Black struggle.

1986 -  Scatman Crothers, actor, who is best known for his role as
        "Louie" on TV's "Chico & the Man", joins the ancestors at the
        age of 76.

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