*             Today in Black History - November 13               *

1839 - The first anti-slavery political party (Liberty Party) is
        organized and convenes in Warsaw, New York.  Samuel Ringgold
        Ward and Henry Highland Garnet are two of the earliest
        supporters of the new political party.

1910 - Painter and printmaker, Wilmer Angier Jennings, is born in
        Atlanta, Georgia.  A graduate of Morehouse College and
        student of Hale Woodruff, Jennings will be employed by the
        Public Works for Art Project and Works Progress Administration
        in the 1930's, where he will paint murals and landscape
        paintings, and produce prints.

1913 - Dr Daniel Hale Williams, the first physician to perform open
        heart surgery, becomes a member of the American College of
        Surgeons.

1940 - The United States Supreme Court rules in Hansberry vs. Lee that
        whites cannot bar African Americans from white neighborhoods.
        The Supreme Court's ruling in the case brought by wealthy
        real-estate broker Carl Hansberry of Chicago, allows the
        Hansberry family, including 10-year-old daughter Lorraine, to
        move into a white neighborhood.

1949 - Caryn Johnson is born in New York City.  She will grow up in
        the ghettos of New York, overcome drug addiction and poverty,
        and become known as Whoopi Goldberg, multitalented comedian
        and actress and Academy Award winner for her supporting role
        performance in "Ghost" in 1991.

1951 - Janet Collins, becomes the first African American ballerina
        to appear with the Metropolitan Opera Company.

1956 - The Supreme Court upholds a lower court decision banning
        segregation on city buses in Montgomery, Alabama.  The Court
        establishes grounds for challenging bus segregation in nine
        states that have violated the 15th Amendment.

1956 - Dancer Geoffrey Holder begins a contract with the Metropolitan
        Opera.  Holder will dance in 26 performances, including "Aida"
        and "La Perichole", and his career will include dance, acting,
        and art collecting.

1967 - Carl Stokes becomes the first African American mayor of a major
        U.S. city when he is inaugurated mayor of Cleveland, Ohio.

1973 - Reggie Jackson, of the Oakland Athletics, unanimously wins the
        American League MVP award.

1985 - Dwight Gooden, the youngest 20 game winner in Major League
        baseball history, wins the Cy Young award.

1992 - Riddick Bowe wins the undisputed heavyweight boxing title in
        Las Vegas with a unanimous decision over Evander Holyfield.

1996 - A grand jury in St. Petersburg, Florida, declines to indict
        police officer Jim Knight, who had shot African American
        motorist TyRon Lewis to death the previous month.  The
        decision prompts angry mobs to return to the streets.

1996 - An all-white jury in Pittsburgh acquits a suburban police
        officer, John Vojtas, in the death of African American
        motorist Johnny Gammage in a verdict that angers African
        American activists.

______________________________________________________________
           Munirah Chronicle is edited by Brother Mosi Hoj
              "The TRUTH shall make you free"

   E-mail:   <[log in to unmask]>
   Archives: <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/Munirah.html>
   ______________________________________________________________
   To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]>
   In the E-mail body place:  Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name
   ______________________________________________________________
   Munirah(TM) is a trademark of Information Man. Copyright 2001,
   All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with
   CODE One Communications.