*              Today in Black History - December 9            *

 

1867 - The Georgia constitutional convention, consisting of 33

            African American and 137 whites, opens in Atlanta, 

            Georgia.

 

1872 - P. B. S. Pinchback is sworn in as governor of Louisiana 

            after H.C. Warmoth is impeached "for high crimes and 

            misdemeanors." He becomes the first African American 

            governor of a state.

 

1919 - Roy deCarava is born in New York City.  He will become a

            leading photographer of the African American experience.

            The first African American photographer to be awarded a 

            Guggenheim Fellowship, his first book, "The Sweet 

            Flypaper of Life," will be a collaboration with poet 

            Langston Hughes.  He will also found and direct Kamoinge 

            Workshop for African American photographers in 1963.

 

1922 - John Elroy (Redd Foxx) Sanford, is born in St. Louis, 

            Missouri. His off-color records and concerts will 

            catapult him to fame and his own television show, 

            "Sanford and Son," and a later series, "The Royal 

            Family," his last before he suddenly joins the ancestors 

            in 1991.

 

1938 - The first public service programming aired when Jack L. 

            Cooper launches the "Search for Missing Persons" show.

 

1953 - Lloyd B. Free is born in Brooklyn, New York.  He will 

            become a professional basketball player and will later 

            change his name to World B. Free.  He will be a NBA 

            guard with the Philadelphia 76ers, San Diego Clippers, 

            Golden State Warriors, Cleveland Cavaliers, and the 

            Houston Rockets.  He will leave the NBA in 1988 with 

            17,955 career points and a career scoring average of

            20.3 points per game.

 

1961 - Tanganyika gains independence from Great Britain and 

            takes the name Tanzania.

 

1961 - Wilt Chamberlain of the NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 

            67 points vs. the New York Knicks.

 

1962 - Tanzania becomes a republic within the British 

            Commonwealth.

 

1963 - Zanzibar gains independence from Great Britain.

 

1971 - Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, Nobel Peace Prize winner and 

            Undersecretary of the United Nations from 1955 to his 

            retirement in October, 1971, joins the ancestors in New 

            York City at the age of 67.

 

1971 - Bill Pickett becomes the first African American elected 

            to the National Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame.  He is the 

            cowboy that invented the bulldogging event famous in 

            today's rodeos.

 

1976 - Tony Dorsett is awarded the Heisman Trophy.  Dorsett, a 

            running back for the University of Pittsburgh, amasses 

            a total of 6,082 total yards and will go on to play 

            with the Dallas Cowboys and help lead them to the Super 

            Bowl.

 

1984 - The Jackson's Victory Tour comes to a close at Dodger 

            Stadium in Los Angeles, after 55 performances in 19 

            cities. The production is reported to be the world's 

            greatest rock extravaganza and one of the most 

            problematic.  The Jackson brothers receive about $50 

            million during the five-month tour of the United States 

            - before some 2.5 million fans.

 

1984 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears records another first 

            as he runs six plays, as quarterback.  He is intercepted 

            twice, but runs the ball himself on four carries.  The 

            Green Bay Packers still win 20-14.  Payton says after 

            the game, "It was OK, but I wouldn't want to do it for a 

            living." 

 

1984 - Eric Dickerson, of the Los Angeles Rams, becomes only the 

            second pro football player to run for more than 2,000 

            yards (2,105) in a season.  He passes O.J. Simpson's 

            record of 2,003 as the Rams beat the Houston Oilers 

            27-16. 

 

1989 - Craig Washington wins a special congressional election in 

            Texas' 18th District to fill the seat vacated by the 

            death of George "Mickey" Leland.


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