*            Today in Black History - November 2                 *

1875 - Democrats suppress the African American vote by fraud and
        violence and carry Mississippi elections. "The Mississippi
        Plan" staged riots, political assassinations, massacres and
        social and economic intimidation was used later to overthrow
        Reconstruction governments in South Carolina and Louisiana.

1903 - Business and civic leader, Maggie Lena Walker, opens the St.
        Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia, becoming the
        first female bank president in the United States.

1930 - Ras Tafari Makonnen is crowned Negus of Ethiopia, taking the
        name Haile Selassie I, 225th Emperor of Solmonic Dynasty .
        His coronation will signify to thousands of Jamaicans and
        Garveyites in the United States, the fulfillment of the
        prophecy of their leader, Marcus Garvey.

1954 - Charles C. Diggs becomes the first African American
        representative to Congress from Michigan.  He, along with
        William Dawson of Illinois and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. of
        New York, comprise the largest number of African Americans
        to date in Congress in the 20th century. Diggs will leave
        Congress in 1980 after being convicted of mail fraud and
        being censured by Congress.

1954 - NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Dr. Theodore K. Lawles
        for his research on skin-related diseases.

1958 - Willie McGee, baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals and 1985
        National League MVP), is born.

1982 - Katie B. Hall is elected the first African American
        congressional representative from Indiana.

1983 - President Ronald Reagan signs a bill to establish a federal
        holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday
        on the third Monday in January.  It is the culmination of the
        efforts by many civil rights organizations and entertainers
        to name King's birthday as a national holiday.

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