*              Today in Black History - November 10             *

1891 - Granville T. Woods obtains a patent for the electric railway.

1898 - A race riot occurs in Wilmington, North Carolina resulting in the
        death of eight African Americans.

1898 - The National Benefit Life Insurance Company is organized in
        Washington, DC, by Samuel W. Rutherford.  National Benefit will
        be the largest African American insurance company for several
        years.

1919 - Moise Tshombe is born.  He will lead a secessionist movement in
        Katanga, the Congo's (Zaire) richest province in 1960, following
        independence from Belgium.   Tshombe will end his secession and
        accept a UN-brokered National Conciliation Plan in January 1963.
        Eighteen months of further negotiations will lead to him being
        appointed Prime Minister, but he will go into exile in 1965.

1930 - Clarence Pendleton is born in Louisville, Kentucky.  He will
        become the first African American chairman of the United States
        Civil Rights Commission in 1981(through 1988), where he will
        oppose affirmative action and busing to achieve school
        desegregation.

1951 - Hosea Richardson becomes the first African American jockey to
        ride in Florida.

1956 - David Adkin is born in Benton Harbor, Michigan.  He will become
        a comedian and actor, better known as "Sinbad."  He will get
        his big break on television's "Star Search" in 1984.  He will
        appear in the television series "Different World," and become
        the emcee of "At the Apollo."  His movie credits will include
        "Necessary Roughness," "The Meteor Man," "Coneheads," "Sinbad-
        Afros and Bellbottoms," "The Frog Prince," "The Cherokee Kid,"
        "Jingle All The Way," "First Kid," " and "Good Burger."  He
        will also produce and emcee the successful "Soul Music
        Festivals" held annually in Caribbean countries.

1957 - Charlie Sifford becomes the first African American to win a
        major professional golf tournament, by winning the Long Beach
        Open.

1960 - Andrew Hatcher is named associate press secretary to President
        John F. Kennedy.  He is the highest-ranking African American,
        appointed to date, in the executive branch.

1968 - Ida Cox, blues singer of such songs as "Wild Women Don't Have
        the Blues," joins the ancestors in Knoxville, Tennessee.

1989 - The Rhythm and Blues Foundation presents its first lifetime
        achievement awards in Washington DC.  Among the honorees are
        bluesmen Charles Brown, Ruth Brown, Percy Sledge ("When a Man
        Loves a Woman"), and Mary Wells ("My Guy").

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