* Today in Black History - October 5 * 1867 - Monroe Baker, a well-to-do African American businessman, is named mayor of St. Martin, Louisiana. He is probably the first African American to serve as mayor of a town. 1872 - Booker T. Washington leaves Malden, West Virginia to enter Hampton Institute. 1878 - George B. Vashion joins the ancestors after succumbing to yellow fever in Rodney, Mississippi. He was the first African American lawyer in the state of New York and an educator and poet whose most famous work was "Victor Oge" (1854), the first narrative, nonlyrical poem by an African American writer. 1929 - Autherine Lucy (later Foster) is born in Shiloh, Alabama. She will be the first African American student to enroll at the University of Alabama (1956). 1932 - Perle Yvonne Watson is born in Los Angeles, California. As Yvonne Braithwaite, she will serve as staff attorney on the McCone Commission investigating the causes of the Watts riots and will become the first African American woman elected to the California state assembly, as well as the first African American woman elected to the House of Representatives. She also will be the first woman to sit on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors as a result of an appointment by Governor Brown. Some years later, she will become the first woman elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. 1985 - Grambling's coach Eddie Robinson wins his record 324th college football game. 1992 - Eddie Kendrick, one of the original members of the Motown group, The Temptations, joins the ancestors after succumbing to lung cancer. ______________________________________________________________ Munirah Chronicle is edited by Brother Mosi Hoj "The TRUTH shall make you free" E-mail: <[log in to unmask]> Archives: <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/Munirah.html> ______________________________________________________________ To SUBSCRIBE send E-mail to: <[log in to unmask]> In the E-mail body place: Subscribe Munirah Your FULL Name ______________________________________________________________ Munirah(TM) is a trademark of Information Man. Copyright 2002, All Rights Reserved by the Information Man in association with CODE One Communications.