*               Today in Black History - December 20         * 

 

1854 - Walter F. Craig is born in Princeton, New Jersey.  He 

            will become a violinist, organizer of Craig's 

            Celebrated Orchestra, and, in 1886, the first African 

            American to be admitted to the Musician's Protective 

            Union.

 

1870 - Robert H. Wood, Mississippi political leader, is elected 

            mayor of Natchez.

 

1870 - Allen University, Benedict College and LeMoyne-Owen 

            College are established.

 

1870 - Jefferson F. Long of Macon, Georgia, is elected to an 

            unexpired term in the Forty-first Congress.  Georgia 

            Democrats carry the state election with a campaign of 

            violence and political intimidation.

 

1893 - Paul Lawrence Dunbar publishes "Oak and Ivy."  Unable to

            afford the $125 publishing costs, he accepts a loan from 

            a white friend.  The loan will be quickly repaid through 

            book sales, often to passengers in the elevator of the 

            Dayton, Ohio, building where he works.

 

1893 - The first state anti-lynching statute is approved in 

            Georgia.

 

1938 - Mattie Alou is born in Haina, Dominican Republic.  He will 

            become a professional baseball player like his brother 

            Felipe.  They both will play for the San Francisco Giants. 

 

1942  - Robert "Bob" Hayes is born in Florida.  He will become a 

            world class sprinter for the United States, winning the 

            Gold Medal in the 100 meter dash in the 1964 Olympic games.  

            He will later become a wide receiver in the National 

            Football League.

 

1956 - The African American community of Montgomery, Alabama votes 

            unanimously to end its 385 day bus-boycott.  Montgomery, 

            Alabama, removes race-based seat assignments on its city's 

            buses.

 

1981 - "Dreamgirls" opens on Broadway at the Imperial Theater.  

            The musical, which chronicles the rise of a black female 

            group in the 1960's, star Jennifer Holliday, Ben Harney, 

            and Cleavant Derricks.  Holliday, Derricks and 

            choreographer Michael Peters will earn Tony awards for 

            their work in the musical.

 

1988 - Max Robinson, the first African American network (ABC) TV 

            anchor, joins the ancestors from complications of AIDS at 

            the age of 49.

 

1998 - Nigerian American Nkem Chukwu gives birth in Houston, Texas 

            to five girls and two boys, 12 days after giving birth to 

            another child, a girl.  The tiniest of the babies will 

            succumb a week later.


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