*                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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