*               Today in Black History - November 5              *

1828 - Theodore Sedgwick Wright becomes the first African American
        person to get a Theology Degree in the United States, when he
        graduates from Princeton Theological Seminary.

1867 - First Reconstruction constitutional convention opens in
        Montgomery, Alabama.  It has eighteen African Americans and
        ninety whites in attendance.

1901 - Etta Moten (later Barnett) is born in San Antonio, Texas.  She
        will become an actress starring in "Porgy and Bess" and have
        a successful career on Broadway.  She will appear in the
        movie "Flying Down to Rio"(1933), singing and dancing the
        Carioca, and as a singer in "The Gold Diggers of 1933"(1933).
        In her later years, she will be active as an Advisory Board
        Member of The Black Academy of Arts and Letters.

1917 - The Supreme Court (Buchanan vs Warley) rules that a Louisville,
        Kentucky, ordinance mandating blacks and whites live in
        separate areas is unconstitutional.

1926 - Negro History Week is initiated by Carter G. Woodson.

1931 - Ike Turner is born in Clarksdale, Mississippi.  He will become
        a singer, songwriter/pianist and will join forces in 1960 with
        his wife, Tina Turner.  Without his union with Tina, Ike Turner
        would have been a small footnote in rock and roll history.

1935 - The Maryland Court of Appeals orders the University of Maryland
        to admit African American student, Donald Murray.

1956 - Art Tatum, joins the ancestors at age 46 in Los Angeles,
        California.  Despite impaired vision, he received formal
        training in music and developed a unique improvisational style.
        He was an accomplished jazz pianist who impressed even classicist
        Vladimir Horowitz.  Perhaps the most gifted technician of all
        jazzmen, Tatum had other assets as well, among them an harmonic
        sense so acute as to make him an almost infallible improviser.
        This aspect of his style, as well as his great rhythmic freedom,
        influenced the young players who became the founders of a new
        style called bebop.

1956 - The Nat King Cole Show premiers. The 15-minute show starring
        the popular singer will run until June 1957 and reappear in
        July in a half-hour format. The first network variety series
        hosted by an African American star, it was canceled due to
        lack of support by advertisers.

1968 - Eight African American males and the first African American
        female, Shirley Chisholm, are elected to the U.S. Congress.
        Including previously elected Massachusetts senator Edward
        Brooke, it is the largest number of African American
        representatives to serve in Congress since the 44th Congress
        of 1875-1877.

1970 - The National Guard is mobilized in Henderson, North Carolina,
        as a result of racially motivated civil disturbances.

1974 - George Brown of Colorado and Mervyn Dymally of California are
        the first African American lieutenant governors elected in
        the 20th century, while Walter Washington becomes the first
        African American to be elected mayor of the District of
        Columbia, and Harold Ford is elected to Congress from
        Tennessee, the first African American from the state.

1974 - The Spingarn Medal is awarded to Damon J. Keith "in tribute to
        his steadfast defense of constitutional principles as revealed
        in a series of memorable decisions he handed down as a United
        States District Court judge."

1989 - The first memorial to the civil rights movement in the United
        States is dedicated at a ceremony in Montgomery, Alabama.  The
        memorial was commissioned by the Southern Poverty Law Center,
        a legal and educational organization located in Montgomery.

1994 - George Foreman, 45, becomes boxing's oldest heavyweight champion
        by knocking out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA
        fight in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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