*               Today in Black History - November 3             *

1868 - John W. Menard, of Louisiana, is elected as the African
        American representative to Congress.  Menard defeats a white
        candidate, 5,107 to 2,833, in an election in Louisiana's
        Second Congressional District to fill an unexpired term in
        the Fortieth Congress.

1874 - James Theodore Holly, an African American who emigrated to
        Haiti in 1861, is elected bishop of Haiti.

1883 - Race riots occur in Danville, Virginia, resulting in the death
        of four African Americans.

1896 - South Carolina State College is established.

1905 - Artist Lois Mailou Jones is born in Boston, Massachusetts. She
        will win her first award in 1926 and have major exhibitions
        at the Harmon Foundation, the Salon des Artistes Francais in
        Paris, the National Academy of Design, and many others.
        Despite her long career, she will not have a major retrospective
        of her work until the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston mounts a
        show in her honor in 1973.

1920 - "Emperor Jones" opens at the Provincetown Theater with Charles
        Gilpin in the title role.

1933 - Louis Wade Sullivan is born in Atlanta, Georgia.  He will
        become the founder and first dean of the Morehouse School of
        Medicine and Secretary of Health and Human Services, the
        highest-ranking African American in the Bush Administration.

1942 - William L. Dawson is elected to Congress from Chicago.

1945 - Irving C. Mollison, a Chicago Republican, is sworn in as U.S.
        Customs Court judge in New York City.

1945 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Paul Robeson "for
        his outstanding achievement in the theater, on the concert
        stage, and in the general field of racial welfare."

1949 - Larry Holmes is born in Easton, Pennsylvania.  He will become
        a professional boxer and world heavyweight champion from 1978
        to 1985.  During his reign, he will defend his title more
        times than any other heavyweight in history, with the exception
        of Joe Louis.

1953 - Jeffrey Banks is born in Washington, DC.  He will become an
        influential fashion designer and the youngest designer to win
        the prestigious Coty Award, for his outstanding fur designs.

1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of the NBA San Francisco Warriors, scores 72
        points vs the Los Angeles Lakers.

1964 - John Conyers, Jr. is elected to the House of Representatives
        from Detroit, Michigan.

1970 - Twelve African Americans are elected to the Ninety-second
        Congress, including five new congressmen: Ralph H. Metcalfe
        (Illinois), George Collins (Illinois), Charles Rangel (New
        York), Ronald Dellums (California), and Parren Mitchell
        (Maryland).

1970 - Wilson Riles is elected as the first African American
        superintendent of Public Instruction in California.

1970 - Richard Austin is elected as the first African American secretary
        of state in Michigan.

1974 - Harold G. Ford is elected U.S. Congressman from Tennessee.

1978 - Dominica is granted its independence by the Great Britain.

1979 - Klansmen fire on an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, North
        Carolina, and kill five persons.

1981 - Coleman Young is re-elected mayor of Detroit. Thurman L. Milner
        is elected mayor of Hartford, Connecticut.  James Chase is
        elected mayor of Spokane, Washington.  Thurman L Milnet is
        elected mayor of Hartford, Connecticut.

1983 - Reverend Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for President
        of the United States.  Although unsuccessful in this and a later
        1988 campaign, Jackson will win many Democratic state primaries.
        His candidacy will win him national attention and a platform for
        increased representation by African Americans in the Democratic
        Party.

1992 - Carol Moseley Braun is the first African American woman to be
        elected to the U.S. Senate.

1992 - James Clyburn is the first African American to represent South
        Carolina since Reconstruction.  He had previously served for
        18 years as South Carolina's Human Affairs Commissioner.

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