*                Today in Black History - December 18                *

1852 - George H. White is born in Rosindale, North Carolina.  He will
        become a lawyer, state legislator, and in 1896, the only
        African American member of the United States House of
        Representatives, where he will be the first to introduce an
        anti-lynching bill.  White will also found the town of Whitesboro,
        New Jersey, as a haven for African Americans  escaping southern
        racism.

1860 - South Carolina declares itself an "independent commonwealth."

1865 - Congress proclaims the ratification of the thirteenth Amendment to
        the Constitution, abolishing slavery.  The ratification process
        had been completed on December 6, 1865.

1917 - Ossie Davis is born in Cogdell, Georgia.  While he will be best
        known as an actor in such plays as "Jeb" (where he will meet
        his wife, Ruby Dee) and "Purlie Victorious" and films like
        "Let's Do It Again," "Do The Right Thing," and "Jungle Fever,"
        he will be a playwright, screenwriter, and director(Cotton Comes
        to Harlem).  In 1969, he will win an Emmy for his role in
        "Teacher, Teacher" and will be a featured performer in
        television's "Evening Shade."

1958 - Niger gains autonomy within the French Community of Nations.

1961 - Wilt Chamberlain of the NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 78
        points vs the Los Angeles Lakers.

1964 - Funeral services are held in Chicago for Sam Cooke. Hundreds
        of fans will cause damage to the A.R. Leak Funeral Home, where
        Cooke's body is on display.

1971 - Jesse Jackson announces the formation of Operation Push (People
        United to Save Humanity), a new African-American political and
        economic development organization.  Jackson, who resigned from
        Operation Breadbasket, the economic arm of the SCLC, says, "the
        problems of the 1970's are economic so the solution and goal
        must be economic."

1971 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Rev. Leon H. Sullivan,
        founder of Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America
        (OIC) for his leadership.

1989 - Ernest Dickerson wins the New York Film Critics Circle Award for
        best cinematography for the movie "Do the Right Thing."

1996 - The Oakland, California School board becomes the first in the
        nation to recognize Black english, a.k.a. Ebonics, as a separate
        language, NOT a dialect or slang.

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