*                Today in Black History - November 28            *

1871 - The Ku Klux Klan trials begin in Federal District Court in South
        Carolina.

1907 - Charles Alston is born in Charlotte, North Carolina.  After
        studying at Columbia University and Pratt Institute, he will
        travel to Europe and the Caribbean, execute murals for Harlem
        Hospital and Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company in Los
        First Award of the Atlanta University Collection's 1942 show
        for his watercolor painting, "Farm Boy".  As a teacher, he will
        teach at the Harlem Community Art Center, Harlem Art Workshop,
        and Pennsylvania State University.  He will be an associate
        professor of painting at The City University of New York and a
        muralist for the WPA during the Depression. His two-panel mural
        of that period, "Magic and Medicine," can be seen at Harlem
        Hospital.

1929 - Berry Gordy is born in Detroit, Michigan.  He will become the
        the founder and president of Motown Records, the most successful
        African American-owned record company.  Gordy's "Motown Sound"
        will become synonymous with the 1960's and will launch the
        careers of Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Temptations, Stevie
        Wonder, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Jackson Five, and
        many others.

1942 - Richard Wright, author of "Native Son" and "Black Boy", joins
        the ancestors in Paris, France at the age of 52.

1942 - Paul Warfield is born in Warren, Ohio.  He will become an wide
        receiver for the Cleveland Browns and Miami Dolphins.  Over
        his career, he will catch 427 passes for 8,565 yards and 85
        touchdowns. He will have a sensational 20.1-yard per catch
        average and will be All-NFL five years.  He also will be named
        to eight Pro Bowls.  He will be enshrined in the Pro Football
        Hall of Fame in 1983.

1958 - Chad, Congo, and & Mauritania become autonomous members of the
        French World Community.

1960 - Mauritania gains independence from France.

1961 - The Downtown Athletic Club awards the Heisman Trophy to Ernie
        Davis, a halfback from Syracuse University.  He is the first
        African American to win the award.

1966 - A coup occurs in Burundi overthrowing the monarchy.  A republic
        is declared as a replacement form of government.

1981 - Pam McAllister Johnson is named as publisher of Gannett's Ithaca
        (New York) Journal.  She is the first African American woman to
        head a general circulation newspaper in the United States.

1992 - In King William's Town, South Africa, four people are killed,
        about 20 injured, when black militant gunmen attack a country
        club.

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