*               Today in Black History - December 14               *

1829 - John Mercer Langston is born in Louisa County, Virginia.  He will
        have a distinguished career as an attorney, educator, recruiter
        of soldiers for the all African American 5th Ohio, 54th and 55th
        Massachusetts regiments, dean of the law school and president of
        Howard University, diplomat, and U.S. congressman.

1915 - Jack Johnson becomes the world heavyweight boxing champion.

1920 - Clark Terry is born in St. Louis, Missouri.  He will become a
        trumpeteer and flugelhorn player who will be known for his
        association with Duke Ellington on the 1950's, his innovative
        flugelhorn sound, and unusual mumbling scat singing.

1939 - Ernest "Ernie" Davis is born.  He will become the first African
        American to win the Heisman Trophy (1961).  He will join the
        ancestors succumbing to leukemia, before he is able to play in the
        National Football League.

1945 - Stanley Crouch is born in Los Angeles, California.  He will
        become a drummer, poet, and writer for "The Village Voice."
        Among his books will be "Notes of a Hanging Judge," published
        in 1990.

1963 - Singer Dinah Washington joins the ancestors after a sleeping pill
        overdose at the age of 39 in Detroit, Michigan.  She popularized
        many, many great songs, including "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes",
        "Unforgettable" and several hits with Brook Benton, including
        "Baby (You've Got What it Takes)" and "A Rockin' Good Way (To
        Mess Around and Fall in Love)".

1968 - Sammy Davis Jr. is awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for his
        "superb and many-faceted talent," and his contributions to the
        civil rights movement.

1968 - Classes of San Francisco State University are suspended after
        demonstrations by the Black Student Union and Third World
        Liberation Front.

1972 - Johnny Rodgers, a running back with the University of Nebraska,
        is awarded the Heisman Trophy.  Rodgers gained a total of
        5,586 yards for the Cornhuskers in three years.

1980 - Elston Howard, a New York Yankee catcher for many years, joins
        the ancestors.

1991 - Desmond Howard, of the University of Michigan wins the Heisman
        trophy.

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