*               Today in Black History - December 13                *

1903 - Ella Baker is born in Norfolk, Virginia.  A civil rights worker
        who will direct the New York branch of the NAACP, Baker will
        become executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership
        Conference in the 1960's during student integration of lunch
        counters in the southern states.  She also will play a key role
        in the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
        Committee and its voter registration drive in Mississippi.

1913 - Archibald Lee Wright is born in Benoit, Mississippi.  Better
        known as Archie Moore, he will become a boxer and win the light
        heavyweight crown in 1952.  He will reign as champion until
        1960.

1924 - Larry Doby is born.  He will become the first African American in
        baseball's American League, playing for the Cleveland Indians.
        He will be the 1954 RBI leader.

1944 - The first African American women complete officer training for
        the WAVES (Women's Auxiliary Volunteers for Emergency Service).
        They had been admitted to the corps two months earlier.

1958 - Tim Moore, an actor best known for his portrayal of Kingfish on
        the Amos 'n' Andy television show, joins the ancestors at the
        age of 70.

1981 - Popular African American comedian Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham joins
        the ancestors after a stroke at the age of 75.  He became famous
        in mainstream America, late in his life for his "here comes de
        judge" routine popularized in television's "Laugh-In."

1989 - President De Klerk of South Africa meets with imprisoned Nelson
        Mandela, at de Klerk's office in Cape Town, to talk about the
        end of apartheid.

1997 - Charles Woodson, of the University of Michigan, is awarded the
        Heisman Trophy.  He is the first defensive player ever to win
        the coveted prize.

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