*               Today in Black History - November 17            *

1842 - Fugitive slave George Latimer, is captured in Boston.  His
        capture leads to the first of the fugitive slave cases which
        strain relationships between the North and South.  Boston
        abolitionists will raise money to purchase Latimer from his
        slaveowner.

1911 - Omega Psi Phi Fraternity is founded on the campus of Howard
        University.

1945 - Elvin Hayes, NBA star and Basketball Hall of Famer - "The Big
        E" (San Diego, Houston Rockets, Baltimore Bullets; 5th on
        list of most games played in ABA/NBA; University of Houston,
        All America in 1967 and 1968), is born.

1956 - Fullback Jim Brown of Syracuse University scores 43 pts
        against Colgate, establishing a NCAA record.

1967 - Ronnie DeVoe, rhythm and blues singer (New Edition; Bell Biv
        DeVoe), is born.

1978 - Two FBI agents testify before the House Select Committee on
        Assassinations that the bureau's long-term surveillance of
        Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was based solely on J. Edgar
        Hoover's "hatred of the civil rights leader" and not on the
        civil rights leader's alleged communist influences or
        linkages with radical groups.

1980 - Howard University's WHMM-TV starts broadcasting.  It is the
        first African American-owned public-broadcasting television
        station.

1990 - Itabari Njeri receives the American Book Award for Outstanding
        Contribution in American Literature for her book, "Every
        Good-bye Ain't Gone."  Also honored is poet Sonia Sanchez,
        who receives a lifetime achievement award.

1998 - Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) is elected as chairperson
        of the Congressional Black Caucus.  He is the first Southerner
        to head the group, since it was founded in 1971. He had been
        first elected to Congress in 1992, the first African American to
        represent South Carolina since Reconstruction.

1998 - Esther Rolle, the Emmy Award-winning actress, who won acclaim
        on the hit CBS sitcom "Good Times" as well as on stage and in
        the movies, joins the ancestors at her home in Los Angeles, at
        the age of 78.

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