* Today in Black History - November 6 *
1746 - Absalom Jones, a major leader of the African American Pioneer
period, is born into slavery in Sussex, Delaware. He will
become a friend of Richard Allen and together they will found
the Free African Society, which would serve as a protective
society and social organization for free African Americans.
After founding a black congregation in 1794, he will be the
first African American ordained as a priest in the Episcopal
Church of the United States, in 1804. He will join the ancestors
on February 13, 1818. He will be listed on the Episcopal
calendar of saints and remembered liturgically on the date of
his death, February 13, in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer as
"Absalom Jones, Priest, 1818".
.
1844 - Spain grants the Dominican Republic its independence.
1868 - Jonathan Gibbs, minister and educator, is appointed Secretary
of State by the governor of Florida.
1884 - Author and abolitionist William Wells Brown joins the ancestors
in Chelsea, Massachusetts. An escaped slave, Brown's
autobiography sold 10,000 copies, a record in his day. He
also wrote the first known travelogue by an African American
and authored the 1853 work "Clotel"; "Or The President's
Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States", the
first fictional work published by an African American.
1900 - James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson compose "Lift
Ev'ry Voice and Sing." It will become known as the "Negro
National Anthem."
1920 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is awarded to W.E.B. Du Bois for
"the founding and calling of the Pan African Congress."
1920 - James Weldon Johnson becomes the first African American
executive secretary of the NAACP.
1928 - Oscar DePriest is elected to the Seventy-First Congress from
Illinois' First Congressional District (Chicago). Before
becoming a U.S. Representative, DePriest will be the first
African American to serve on the Chicago City Council, having
been elected alderman of the Second Ward in 1915. He will be
the first African American to win a seat in the United States
House of Representatives in the twentieth century.
1928 - The Atlanta "Daily World" is founded by W.A. Scott Jr. The
newspaper will become a daily in 1933.
1928 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Charles W. Chestnutt,
the first African American to receive widespread critical
recognition as a novelist. He was cited for his "pioneer work
as a literary artist depicting the life and struggle of
Americans of Negro descent."
1937 - Eugene Sampson Pitt is born in Brooklyn, New York. He will become
a rhythm and blues singer with The Genies - "Who's that Knockin'"
and founding member and lead singer for The Jive Five - "Never
Never," "What Time is It?," "I'm a Happy Man" and "My True Story".
In 1985, he and The Jive Five will be introduced to New York cable
TV branding consultants Fred Seibert and Alan Goodman by his latest
producer, Ambient Sound's Marty Pekar. Together they will embark on
an almost ten-year relationship, creating and singing the a
cappella signature sound of the American kids' television network
"Nickelodeon." Terry Stewart, President & CEO of the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame, will refer to Pitt as "the most underrated soul singer
in America." He will join the ancestors on June 29, 2018.
1962 - Edward W. Brooke is elected Attorney General of Massachusetts,
Gerald Lamb is elected Treasurer of Connecticut, and 5 African
Americans are elected to the House of Representatives. Augustus
"Gus" F. Hawkins, becomes the first African American congressman
from the West (Los Angeles, California).
1962 - The U.N. General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South
Africa for its apartheid policies and recommends member states
apply economic sanctions.
1964 - Corey Glover is born in Brooklyn, New York. He will become a singer,
guitarist and actor. He will be the lead vocalist of the rock band
Living Colour and will tour as the vocalist for the funk band
Galactic. As an actor, he will play Francis in the 1986 war movie
"Platoon." Living Colour will find immediate success with the
release of their debut album, "Vivid" in 1988. It eventually will
go platinum in April 1989 and again five years later. The album's
single "Cult of Personality" will win the 1989 Grammy Award for
Best Hard Rock Performance and the band will be named Best New
Artist at the MTV Video Music Awards. Living Colour will release
two more albums ("Time's Up" and "Stain") before splitting up in
1995. After the split, he will start a solo career as Reverend
Daddy Love and form the band Vice with guitarist Mike Ciro. In
1995, he will participate with an ensemble of notable vocalists,
guitarists, bassists, and drummers, including the London
Metropolitan Orchestra, to record a Jimi Hendrix tribute album
named "In From The Storm." he will provide the vocals for tracks
7 and 8, which were "In From The Storm" (title track) and
"Drifting." Living Colour will reunite on December 21, 2000 at
CBGB's during a set by Will Calhoun and Doug Wimbish's live drum
'n' bass duo, Headfake. He will guest on three songs, and Vernon
Reid will join those three songs into the set. The reunion will be
followed by the release of the band's fourth studio album
"Collideøscope" in October 2003. In August 2006, he will begin
co-headlining a national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, playing
the role of Judas Iscariot opposite Ted Neeley. He will take the
place of singer Carl Anderson, who had played Judas since 1971
alongside Neeley and was set to reprise the role, but had died of
leukemia in 2004. The tour will run through 2010. He will tell
Neeley that when he was a child, seeing the movie version of the
show will be what made him decide to be an entertainer. In June
2008, he will leave the show to rejoin with Living Colour and to
work on the next CD. On September 15, 2009, Living Colour will
release their fifth studio album, "The Chair in the Doorway." In
2010, he will begin touring as the vocalist for the band Galactic.
He will tour North America in 2012 with Galactic and Soul Rebels
Brass Band. On March 29, 2012, the two bands will appear on the
late night talk show Conan on TBS. In 2018 he will team up with
guitarist George Lynch, drummer Chris Moore, and bassist Pancho
Tomaselli to form the rock group Ultraphonix.
1973 - Coleman Young is elected as the first African American mayor of
Detroit, Michigan.
1973 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Wilson C. Riles, the
superintendent of public instruction in California, "in
recognition of the stature he has attained as a national leader
in the field of education."
1973 - The Symbionese Liberation Army ambushes Marcus A. Foster,
superintendent of public schools in Oakland, California, after
a Board of Education meeting. Two members of the group, were
convicted of the slaying, but one of the men will have his
conviction overturned, based on a legal technicality.
1973 - Thomas Bradley is elected as the first African American mayor
of Los Angeles, California. His political success will be due
to his masterful use of multi-racial coalition. African
Americans at this time were not a large segment of the Los
Angeles population.
1976 - FCC Commissioner Benjamin Hooks is elected NAACP executive
director by the organization's board of directors, succeeding
Roy Wilkins. He will serve the organization for 16 years,
retiring in 1992. Of his tenure he will say, "We have maintained
the integrity of this organization and kept our name out front
and on the minds of those who would turn back the clock."
1979 - Lamar Joseph Odom is born in Queens, New York. He will become a
professional basketball player. As a member of the Los Angeles
Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA), he will win
championships in 2009 and 2010 and be named the NBA Sixth Man of
the Year in 2011. In high school, he will receive national player
of the year honors from Parade in 1997. He will play college
basketball for the University of Rhode Island, earning all-
conference honors during his only season in the Atlantic 10
Conference before turning professional. The Los Angeles Clippers
will select him with the fourth overall pick in the first round
of the 1999 NBA draft. He will be named to the NBA All-Rookie
Team in the following year; it will be during his four seasons
with the Clippers, however, that he will be twice suspended for
violating the league's anti-drug policy. As a restricted free
agent, he will then sign with the Miami Heat, where he will play
the 2003–04 season before being traded to the Lakers. He will
spend seven seasons with the Lakers, who will trade him to the
Dallas Mavericks in 2011. After the move, his career will
decline. He will be traded back to the Clippers in 2012 and will
play briefly in Spain in 2014. He will play on the United States
national team, winning a bronze medal in the Olympics in 2004
and a gold medal in the FIBA World Championship (later known as
the World Cup) in 2010. He will be married to Khloé Kardashian
from 2009 to 2016. During their marriage, he will make several
appearances on the reality television show "Keeping Up with the
Kardashians." He and Kardashian will also have their own reality
series, "Khloé & Lamar." In October 2015, he will fall into a
coma and be hospitalized with life-threatening medical problems.
He will recover from his health scare and obtain drug treatment.
1983 - Sgt. Farley Simon, a native of Grenada, becomes the first Marine
to win the Marine Corps Marathon.
1990 - Harvey Gantt, former mayor of Charlotte, NC, loses his Senate
race to incumbent Jesse Helms and the opportunity to become the
first African American senator from the South since
Reconstruction. Barbara-Rose Collins and Maxine Waters are
elected to Congress from their home districts in Michigan and
California, respectively, while Eleanor Holmes Norton is elected
as a non-voting delegate from the District of Columbia.
1990 - Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
1992 - Vernon Jordan, along with Warren Christopher, is asked to lead
the White House transition team, by President-elect William
Jefferson Clinton.* Today in Black History - November 6 *
1746 - Absalom Jones, a major leader of the African American Pioneer
period, is born into slavery in Sussex, Delaware. He will
become a friend of Richard Allen and together they will found
the Free African Society, which would serve as a protective
society and social organization for free African Americans.
After founding a black congregation in 1794, he will be the
first African American ordained as a priest in the Episcopal
Church of the United States, in 1804. He will join the ancestors
on February 13, 1818. He will be listed on the Episcopal
calendar of saints and remembered liturgically on the date of
his death, February 13, in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer as
"Absalom Jones, Priest, 1818".
.
1844 - Spain grants the Dominican Republic its independence.
1868 - Jonathan Gibbs, minister and educator, is appointed Secretary
of State by the governor of Florida.
1884 - Author and abolitionist William Wells Brown joins the ancestors
in Chelsea, Massachusetts. An escaped slave, Brown's
autobiography sold 10,000 copies, a record in his day. He
also wrote the first known travelogue by an African American
and authored the 1853 work "Clotel"; "Or The President's
Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States", the
first fictional work published by an African American.
1900 - James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson compose "Lift
Ev'ry Voice and Sing." It will become known as the "Negro
National Anthem."
1920 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is awarded to W.E.B. Du Bois for
"the founding and calling of the Pan African Congress."
1920 - James Weldon Johnson becomes the first African American
executive secretary of the NAACP.
1928 - Oscar DePriest is elected to the Seventy-First Congress from
Illinois' First Congressional District (Chicago). Before
becoming a U.S. Representative, DePriest will be the first
African American to serve on the Chicago City Council, having
been elected alderman of the Second Ward in 1915. He will be
the first African American to win a seat in the United States
House of Representatives in the twentieth century.
1928 - The Atlanta "Daily World" is founded by W.A. Scott Jr. The
newspaper will become a daily in 1933.
1928 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Charles W. Chestnutt,
the first African American to receive widespread critical
recognition as a novelist. He was cited for his "pioneer work
as a literary artist depicting the life and struggle of
Americans of Negro descent."
1937 - Eugene Sampson Pitt is born in Brooklyn, New York. He will become
a rhythm and blues singer with The Genies - "Who's that Knockin'"
and founding member and lead singer for The Jive Five - "Never
Never," "What Time is It?," "I'm a Happy Man" and "My True Story".
In 1985, he and The Jive Five will be introduced to New York cable
TV branding consultants Fred Seibert and Alan Goodman by his latest
producer, Ambient Sound's Marty Pekar. Together they will embark on
an almost ten-year relationship, creating and singing the a
cappella signature sound of the American kids' television network
"Nickelodeon." Terry Stewart, President & CEO of the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame, will refer to Pitt as "the most underrated soul singer
in America." He will join the ancestors on June 29, 2018.
1962 - Edward W. Brooke is elected Attorney General of Massachusetts,
Gerald Lamb is elected Treasurer of Connecticut, and 5 African
Americans are elected to the House of Representatives. Augustus
"Gus" F. Hawkins, becomes the first African American congressman
from the West (Los Angeles, California).
1962 - The U.N. General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South
Africa for its apartheid policies and recommends member states
apply economic sanctions.
1964 - Corey Glover is born in Brooklyn, New York. He will become a singer,
guitarist and actor. He will be the lead vocalist of the rock band
Living Colour and will tour as the vocalist for the funk band
Galactic. As an actor, he will play Francis in the 1986 war movie
"Platoon." Living Colour will find immediate success with the
release of their debut album, "Vivid" in 1988. It eventually will
go platinum in April 1989 and again five years later. The album's
single "Cult of Personality" will win the 1989 Grammy Award for
Best Hard Rock Performance and the band will be named Best New
Artist at the MTV Video Music Awards. Living Colour will release
two more albums ("Time's Up" and "Stain") before splitting up in
1995. After the split, he will start a solo career as Reverend
Daddy Love and form the band Vice with guitarist Mike Ciro. In
1995, he will participate with an ensemble of notable vocalists,
guitarists, bassists, and drummers, including the London
Metropolitan Orchestra, to record a Jimi Hendrix tribute album
named "In From The Storm." he will provide the vocals for tracks
7 and 8, which were "In From The Storm" (title track) and
"Drifting." Living Colour will reunite on December 21, 2000 at
CBGB's during a set by Will Calhoun and Doug Wimbish's live drum
'n' bass duo, Headfake. He will guest on three songs, and Vernon
Reid will join those three songs into the set. The reunion will be
followed by the release of the band's fourth studio album
"Collideøscope" in October 2003. In August 2006, he will begin
co-headlining a national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, playing
the role of Judas Iscariot opposite Ted Neeley. He will take the
place of singer Carl Anderson, who had played Judas since 1971
alongside Neeley and was set to reprise the role, but had died of
leukemia in 2004. The tour will run through 2010. He will tell
Neeley that when he was a child, seeing the movie version of the
show will be what made him decide to be an entertainer. In June
2008, he will leave the show to rejoin with Living Colour and to
work on the next CD. On September 15, 2009, Living Colour will
release their fifth studio album, "The Chair in the Doorway." In
2010, he will begin touring as the vocalist for the band Galactic.
He will tour North America in 2012 with Galactic and Soul Rebels
Brass Band. On March 29, 2012, the two bands will appear on the
late night talk show Conan on TBS. In 2018 he will team up with
guitarist George Lynch, drummer Chris Moore, and bassist Pancho
Tomaselli to form the rock group Ultraphonix.
1973 - Coleman Young is elected as the first African American mayor of
Detroit, Michigan.
1973 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is presented to Wilson C. Riles, the
superintendent of public instruction in California, "in
recognition of the stature he has attained as a national leader
in the field of education."
1973 - The Symbionese Liberation Army ambushes Marcus A. Foster,
superintendent of public schools in Oakland, California, after
a Board of Education meeting. Two members of the group, were
convicted of the slaying, but one of the men will have his
conviction overturned, based on a legal technicality.
1973 - Thomas Bradley is elected as the first African American mayor
of Los Angeles, California. His political success will be due
to his masterful use of multi-racial coalition. African
Americans at this time were not a large segment of the Los
Angeles population.
1976 - FCC Commissioner Benjamin Hooks is elected NAACP executive
director by the organization's board of directors, succeeding
Roy Wilkins. He will serve the organization for 16 years,
retiring in 1992. Of his tenure he will say, "We have maintained
the integrity of this organization and kept our name out front
and on the minds of those who would turn back the clock."
1979 - Lamar Joseph Odom is born in Queens, New York. He will become a
professional basketball player. As a member of the Los Angeles
Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA), he will win
championships in 2009 and 2010 and be named the NBA Sixth Man of
the Year in 2011. In high school, he will receive national player
of the year honors from Parade in 1997. He will play college
basketball for the University of Rhode Island, earning all-
conference honors during his only season in the Atlantic 10
Conference before turning professional. The Los Angeles Clippers
will select him with the fourth overall pick in the first round
of the 1999 NBA draft. He will be named to the NBA All-Rookie
Team in the following year; it will be during his four seasons
with the Clippers, however, that he will be twice suspended for
violating the league's anti-drug policy. As a restricted free
agent, he will then sign with the Miami Heat, where he will play
the 2003–04 season before being traded to the Lakers. He will
spend seven seasons with the Lakers, who will trade him to the
Dallas Mavericks in 2011. After the move, his career will
decline. He will be traded back to the Clippers in 2012 and will
play briefly in Spain in 2014. He will play on the United States
national team, winning a bronze medal in the Olympics in 2004
and a gold medal in the FIBA World Championship (later known as
the World Cup) in 2010. He will be married to Khloé Kardashian
from 2009 to 2016. During their marriage, he will make several
appearances on the reality television show "Keeping Up with the
Kardashians." He and Kardashian will also have their own reality
series, "Khloé & Lamar." In October 2015, he will fall into a
coma and be hospitalized with life-threatening medical problems.
He will recover from his health scare and obtain drug treatment.
1983 - Sgt. Farley Simon, a native of Grenada, becomes the first Marine
to win the Marine Corps Marathon.
1990 - Harvey Gantt, former mayor of Charlotte, NC, loses his Senate
race to incumbent Jesse Helms and the opportunity to become the
first African American senator from the South since
Reconstruction. Barbara-Rose Collins and Maxine Waters are
elected to Congress from their home districts in Michigan and
California, respectively, while Eleanor Holmes Norton is elected
as a non-voting delegate from the District of Columbia.
1990 - Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
1992 - Vernon Jordan, along with Warren Christopher, is asked to lead
the White House transition team, by President-elect William
Jefferson Clinton.
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