* 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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