*                 Today in Black History - November 29             *

1905 - The Chicago Defender, an African American newspaper, begins
        publication.

1907 - Thomas C. Fleming is born in Jacksonville, Florida.  He will
        become the co-founder of the San Francisco Sun Reporter, an
        African American weekly newspaper.  Mr. Fleming will be active,
        as a writer for the paper, from its inception in 1944 through
        the end of the century.  He will chronicle his life as an
        African in America through his series, "Reflections on Black
        History," published in his 90's, while still active as a
        journalist with his beloved Sun Reporter.

1908 - Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. is born in New Haven, Connecticut.
        Son of the famed minister of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist
        Church, the younger Powell will be a civil rights activist,
        using mass meetings and strikes to force employment reforms. In
        1944, Powell will be elected to Congress and begin what will be
        considered a controversial congressional career. Among his
        early actions will be the desegregation of eating facilities in
        the House and an unrelenting fight to end discrimination in the
        armed forces, employment, housing, and transportation. Later in
        his career, his questionable activities while chairman of the
        Committee on Education and Labor will result in his expulsion
        from Congress, re-election and eventual return to his seat.

1935 - Two-term congressman from North Carolina, Henry Plummer Cheatham
        joins the ancestors in Oxford, North Carolina.  Cheatham was the
        only African American member of Congress during the 1890 term.

1943 - David Bing is born in Washington, DC.  He will be selected No. 2
        in the 1966 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons, and play 12 years
        in the NBA.  He will be inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame in
        1990, and named one of the top 50 basketball players of all
        time.

1961 - Freedom Riders are attacked by white mob at bus station in
        McComb, Mississippi.

1964 - Don Cheadle is born in Kansas City, Missouri.  He will become an
        actor and star in movies such as "Boogie Nights", "Rebound",
        "Hamburger Hill", and "Devil in a Blue Dress".  He will also be
        successful on the small screen in "Picket Fences", "Golden
        Palace" and a variety of guest appearances.

1989 - The space shuttle Discovery lands after completing a secret
        military mission.  The mission was led by Air Force Colonel
        Frederick D. Gregory, the first African American commander of a
        space shuttle mission.

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