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This Week In Black History
Each Thursday or Friday morning, I update the information in my Black
History Database. I have several references at my disposal and I enter in
new information for that week (from that next Monday to the following
Sunday). I email those weekly changes to a small distribution list as well
as to the USENET groups soc.culture.african.american.*. Every once in awhile
I send off a brief biography of some person or a brief description of some
event in Black History. As always, one can find Black History information
simply by using the URL http://www.seditionists.org/black and following the
pointers.
Feel free to contact me by email if you wish to be placed on the
distribution list. Please remember that I maintain a lot of lists so
indicate that this is the list you want to be on.
I'm more than happy to give permission for these lists to be redistributed
in whole or in part, so long as: 1) no fee is charged for this distribution
and 2) these three paragraphs are included. Charles L Isbell, Jr.
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This is for the week beginning Monday, November 3.
November 3 Dominica Independence Day
JH Hunter patents the portable weighing scales, 1896
Harold Ford elected congressman from TN, 1974
Thurman L Milnet elected mayor of Hartford CT, 1981
Carol Moseley Braun elected to US Senate, 1992
November 4 T Elkins patents the refrigerating apparatus, 1879
Hulan Jack elected first Black Borough President of
Manhattan, NYC, 1953
Shirley Verrett, world renowed opera singer, makes her
debut in New York City, 1958
November 5 Theo Wright becomes the first Black recipient of a
Theology Degree in the US, 1836
Shirley Chisholm becomes first Black woman elected to
Congress, representing Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn,
NYC, 1968
George Brown elected Lt Governor of Colorado, becoming
one of the first two Black Lt Governors in the USA, 1974
Mervyn M Dymally elected Lt Governor of California,
becoming one of the first two Black Lt Governors in the
USA, 1974
November 6 William Wells Brown, novelist and dramatist, dies, 1884
Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit, becoming one of
the first two Black mayors of city with over a million
citizens, 1973
Thomas Bradley elected mayor of Los Angeles at a time
when Blacks represented only 15% of the LA electorate,
becoming one of the first two Black mayors of city with
over a million citizens, 1973
November 7 Elijah Lovejoy, newspaperman, killed defending his
newspaper from a pro-slavery mob, 1837
David Dinkins elected first Black mayor of New York
City, 1989
L Douglas Wilder elected governor of Virgina, becoming
the first Black Governer in the US since Reconstruction,
1989
November 8 Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor, the world's fastest
bicycle racer for 12 years, born in Indianapolis, 1878
Otis Smith becomes auditor general and the first Black
politician to win a statewide election since
reconstruction, 1960
Edward W Brooke elected first Black US senator (R-Mass)
in eighty five years, 1966
November 9 Benjamin Banneker, inventor, mathematician and one of
the planners of what is now Washington DC, born, 1731
Medical School at Howard University opens with eight
students, 1868
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Peace.
"Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always;
for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because
they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live."
- Charles Caleb Colton "The Lacon" (1829)
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