*                 Today in Black History - December 7               *

1874 - White Democrats kill seventy-five Republicans in a massacre at
        Vicksburg, Mississippi.

1885 - The Forty-Ninth Congress (1885-87) is convened. Two African
        American congressmen, James E. O'Hara of North Carolina and
        Robert Smalls of South Carolina are in attendance.

1931 - Comer Cottrell is born in Mobile, Alabama.  In 1970, he will
        become founder and president of Pro-line Corporation, the
        largest African American-owned business in the southwest, which
        he will start with $ 600 and a borrowed typewriter.  An
        entrepreneur with a wide range of interests, Cottrell will
        also become the first African American to own a part of a
        major league baseball team, the Texas Rangers, in 1989.

1941 - During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dorie Miller of
        Waco, Texas, a messman aboard the battleship Arizona who had
        never been instructed in firearms, heroically downs three
        Japanese planes before being ordered to leave the ship.  Miller
        will be awarded the Navy Cross for his bravery.

1941 - The Downtown Gallery in New York City presents the exhibit
        "American Negro Art, 19th and 20th Century".  Included in the
        exhibit is work by Robert Duncanson, Horace Pippin, Eldzier
        Cortor, Richmond Barte' and others.

1941 - Lester Granger is named executive director of the National Urban
        League.

1941 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to novelist Richard
        Wright, "one of the most powerful of contemporary writer," for
        "his powerful depiction in his books, 'Uncle Tom's Childre-n,'
        and 'Native Son,' of the effect of proscription, segregation
        and denial of opportunities to the American Negro."

1942 - Reginald F. Lewis is born in Baltimore, Maryland. He will receive
        his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1968.  He will
        eventually become a partner in Murphy, Thorpe & Lewis, the first
        African American law firm on Wall Street.  In 1989, he will
        become president and CEO of TLC Beatrice International Holding
        Inc.  With TLC's leverage acquisition of Beatrice International
        Food Company, Lewis becomes the head of the largest African
        American-owned business in the United States.  TLC Beatrice had
        revenues of $1.54 billion in 1992. He will join the ancestors in
        January, 1993, succumbing to brain cancer.

1972 - W. Sterling Cary is elected president of the Nation Council of
        Churches.

1978 - Billy Sims is awarded the Heisman Trophy at the annual awards
        dinner sponsored by the Downtown Athletic Club.  The running
        back from the University of Oklahoma is the sixth junior to
        win the award.

1981 - John Jacobs is named president of the National Urban League.

1985 - Bo Jackson of Auburn University wins the Heisman Trophy.

1990 - Rhythm and Blues artist, Dee Clark, joins the ancestors in Smyrna,
        Georgia at the age of 52.

1993 - The South African transitional executive council is set up.

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