*               Today in Black History - November 23             *

1867 - The Louisiana constitutional convention (forty-nine white
        delegates and forty-nine African American delegates) meets
        in Mechanics Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana.

1897 - J.L. Love receives a patent for the pencil sharpener.

1897 - Andrew J. Beard receives a patent for the "jerry coupler,"
        still is use today to connect railroad cars.

1905 - Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physician, is named minister
        to Haiti.  He will be the last African American minister to
        Haiti during this period in history.

1934 - "Imitation of Life" premieres in New York City.  Starring
        Claudette Colbert, Louise Beavers, and Fredi Washington, it
        is the story of a white woman and an African American woman
        who build a pancake business while the latter's daughter makes
        a desperate attempt to pass for white.

1965 - Mike Garrett, a University of Southern California running back
        with 4,876 total yards and 3,221 yards rushing, is announced as
        the Downtown Athletic Club's Heisman Trophy winner of 1965. He
        is the University of Southern California's first Heisman Trophy
        winner.  He will go on to play eight years in the pros, first
        with the Kansas City Chiefs and later with the San Diego
        Chargers, and be elected to the National Football Hall of Fame
        in 1985.

1980 - One thousand persons from twenty five states gather in
        Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and form the National Black
        Independent Party.

1988 - Al Raby, the civil rights leader who convinced Martin Luther
        King, Jr. to bring his movement to Chicago, joins the ancestors
        after suffering a heart attack.

1988 - South African President Pieter Botha gives a reprieve to the
        Sharpeville Six.

1991 - Evander Holyfield retains the heavyweight boxing title, by KO
        over Bert Cooper in the seventh round.

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