*               Today in Black History - November 6          *

1746 - Absalom Jones, a major leader of the African American 
	Pioneer period, is born into slavery in Sussex, 
	Delaware.  Jones will become a friend of Richard Allen
	and together they will found the Free African Society, 
	which would serve as a protective society and social 
	organization for free African Americans.
                             . 
1844 - Spain grants the Dominican Republic its independence.

1868 - Jonathan Gibbs, minister and educator, is appointed 
	Secretary of State by the governor of Florida.

1884 - Author and abolitionist William Wells Brown joins the 
	ancestors in Chelsea, Massachusetts. An escaped slave,
	Brown's autobiography sold 10,000 copies, a record in 
	his day.  Brown also wrote the first known travelogue 
	by an African American and authored the 1853 work 
	"Clotel"; "Or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of 
	Slave Life in the United States", the first fictional 
	work published by an African American. 

1900 - James Weldon Johnson (lyrics) and J. Rosamond Johnson 
	(music) compose "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing."  It will 
	become known as the "Negro National Anthem."

1920 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is awarded to W.E.B. Du Bois 
	for "the founding and calling of the Pan African 
	Congress."

1920 - James Weldon Johnson becomes the first African American 
	executive secretary of the NAACP.

1928 - Oscar DePriest is elected to the Seventy-First Congress 
	from Illinois' First Congressional District (Chicago).  
	Before becoming a U.S. Representative, DePriest was the 
	first African American to serve on the Chicago City 
	Council, having been elected alderman of the Second 
	Ward in 1915.  He is the first African American to win 
	a seat in the United States House of Representatives 
	in the twentieth century. 

1928 - The Atlanta "Daily World" is founded by W.A. Scott Jr.  
	The newspaper will become a daily in 1933.

1928 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Charles W. 
	Chestnutt, the first African American to receive 
	widespread critical recognition as a novelist.  He was 
	cited for his "pioneer work as a literary artist 
	depicting the life and struggle of Americans of Negro 
	descent."

1937 - Eugene Pitt is born in Brooklyn, New York.  He will 
	become a rhythm and blues singer with The Genies - 
	"Who's that Knockin'" and lead singer for The Jive 
	Five - "Never Never," "What Time is It?," "I'm a Happy 
	Man" and "My True Story".

1962 - Edward W. Brooke is elected Attorney General of 
	Massachusetts, Gerald Lamb is elected Treasurer of 
	Connecticut, and 5 African Americans are elected to the 
	House of Representatives.  Augustus "Gus" F. Hawkins, 
	becomes the first African American congressman from the 
	West (Los Angeles, California). 

1962 - The U.N. General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning 
	South Africa for its apartheid policies and recommends 
	member states apply economic sanctions.

1973 - Coleman Young is elected as the first African American 
	mayor of Detroit, Michigan.

1973 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Wilson C. 
	Riles, the superintendent of public instruction in 
	California, "in recognition of the stature he has 
	attained as a national leader in the field of 
	education."

1973 - The Symbionese Liberation Army ambushes Marcus A. 
	Foster, superintendent of public schools in Oakland, 
	California, after a Board of Education meeting.  Two 
	members of the group, were convicted of the slaying, 
	but one of the men has his conviction overturned, 
	based on a legal technicality.

1973 - Thomas Bradley is elected as the first African American 
	mayor of Los Angeles, California.  His political 
	success was due to his masterful use of multi-racial 
	coalition.  African Americans at this time were not a 
	large segment of the Los Angeles population.

1976 - FCC Commissioner Benjamin Hooks is elected NAACP 
	executive director by the organization's board of 
	directors, succeeding Roy Wilkins.  He will serve the 
	organization in that position for 16 years, retiring in 
	1992.  Of his tenure he says, "We have maintained the 
	integrity of this organization and kept our name out 
	front and on the minds of those who would turn back the
	clock."

1983 - Sgt. Farley Simon, a native of Grenada, becomes the 
	first Marine to win the Marine Corps Marathon.

1990 - Harvey Gantt, former mayor of Charlotte, NC, loses his 
	Senate race to incumbent Jesse Helms and the 
	opportunity to become the first African American 
	senator from the South since Reconstruction.  Barbara-
	Rose Collins and Maxine Waters are elected to Congress 
	from their home districts in Michigan and California, 
	respectively, while Eleanor Holmes Norton is elected
	as a non-voting delegate from the District of Columbia.

1990 - Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. 

1992 - Vernon Jordan, along with Warren Christopher, is asked 
	to lead the White House transition team, by President-
	elect William Jefferson Clinton.

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