*               Today in Black History - October 5               *

1867 - Monroe Baker, a well-to-do African American businessman,
        is named mayor of St. Martin, Louisiana.  He is probably the
        first African American to serve as mayor of a town.

1872 - Booker T. Washington leaves Malden, West Virginia to enter
        Hampton Institute.

1878 - George B. Vashion dies of yellow fever in Rodney, Mississippi.
        He was the first African American lawyer in the state of New
        York and an educator and poet whose most famous work was Victor
        Oge (1854), the first narrative, nonlyrical poem by an African
        American writer.

1929 - Autherine Lucy (later Foster) is born in Shiloh, Alabama. She
        will be the first African American student to enroll at the
        University of Alabama (1956).

1932 - Perle Yvonne Watson is born in Los Angeles, California. As
        Yvonne Braithwaite, she will serve as staff attorney on the
        McCone Commission investigating the causes of the Watts riots
        and will become the first African American woman elected to the
        California state assembly, as well as the first African American
        woman elected to the House of Representatives.

1985 - Grambling's coach Eddie Robinson wins record 324th college
        football game.

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