* Today in Black History - November 19 *
1867 - South Carolina citizens endorse a constitutional
convention and select delegates. 66,418 African
Americans and 2350 whites vote for the convention and
2278 whites vote against holding a convention. The
total vote cast is 71,046. Not a single African
American votes against the convention.
1921 - Roy Campanella is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He will become one of the first African-American
baseball players signed to major league ball after
Jackie Robinson breaks the color line. He will become
the first African American catcher in Major League
history. Campanella will play for the Brooklyn Dodgers
and be the National League's Most Valuable Player in
1951, 1953, and 1955. He was given the second MVP award
in 1953 on his birthday. His baseball career will end
when he is paralyzed in an automobile accident in
January, 1958. He will then work for many years in the
Dodger organization. He will be elected to the Baseball
Hall of Fame in 1969 and will join the ancestors on
June 26, 1993.
1938 - Warren Thomas "Pete" Moore is born in Detroit, Michigan.
He will become a singer-songwriter and record producer,
notable as the bass singer for the Motown group The
Miracles from 1955 onwards, and will be one of the group's
original members. He will is also be a 2012 Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame Inductee, and a BMI and ASCAP award-winning
songwriter, and will be the vocal arranger on all of the
group's hits. A childhood friend of Miracles lead singer
Smokey Robinson, the two will meet at a musical event
given by the Detroit Public School system, where he will
spot Robinson singing as part of the show. The two will
become friends and form a singing group, which eventually
will become the Miracles. Besides his work in the Miracles,
he will help Miracles member Smokey Robinson write several
hit songs, including The Temptations' "It's Growing" and
"Since I Lost My Baby", and two of Marvin Gaye's biggest
hits, the Top 10 million sellers, "Ain't That Peculiar"
and "I'll Be Doggone". He will also co-write several of The
Miracles' own hits. These will include "Ooo Baby Baby"
(1965), the million-selling Grammy Hall of Fame Inductee
"The Tracks of My Tears" (also 1965), for which he will win
the ASCAP Award Of Merit, "My Girl Has Gone", another Top
20 hit from 1965, "Going to a Go-Go" (also 1965), (where he
will come up with the song's initial percussion sequence),
and the multi-million selling #1 Pop smash, "Love Machine"
(co-written with Miracles' member Billy Griffin) and the
platinum album from which it came, City of Angels, among
others. As leader of the Miracles, he will enjoy other hits
with Griffin i.e. Do it Baby which was the Miracles first
major hit after Smokey left the group. He and the group will
sign a management agreement with Martin Pichinson who also
manages Lou Rawls and Bill Withers. Pichinson will be very
instrumental in developing the new direction for the Miracles.
The song "Overture" from that album, also co-written by him
and Billy Griffin, will be used as the official theme on Radio
Monte Carlo in France from 1978 to 1979. He will also sing
co-lead on a few recordings as well, such as "I Love Your Baby"
and the groups' Billboard Top 40 hit "Doggone Right". He will
also be an accomplished producer, having produced several hit
songs, including the Miracles' 1965 R&B chart hit, "Choosey
Beggar", their 1969 hit, "Here I Go Again", the group's million-
selling Top 10 hit, "Baby Baby Don't Cry" (also 1969), and the
aforementioned City Of Angels album, along with albums by Marvin
Gaye, and the Supremes. In late 2006, he will reunite with
original Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Bobby Rogers for
an extended interview on the Motown DVD release, Smokey Robinson
& The Miracles: The Definitive Performances. In the interview,
he will reveal for the first time that he was the group's
uncredited vocal arranger. The second most prolific songwriter
in the Miracles after Robinson, his compositions have been
recorded by Linda Ronstadt, Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Aretha
Franklin, George Michael, The Rolling Stones, Ramsey Lewis, Tom
Jones, Luther Vandross, The Temptations, The Four Tops and Debby
Boone. He will be owner and CEO of Las Vegas-based entertainment
firm, WBMM Enterprises, and co-owner, with Miracles member Billy
Griffin, of music publishing company, Grimora Music. He will join
the ancestors on November 19, 2017 after succumbing to complications
of diabetes.
1949 - Ahmad Rashad, is born Robert Earl Moore in Portland, Oregon.
He will be a first-round draft choice of the St. Louis
Football Cardinals in 1972. He will go on to play for
Buffalo and Seattle before settling in Minnesota in 1976
and playing the next seven seasons for the Vikings. He will
hold the Viking career reception lead (400) and be second
in reception yardage. Overall, he will have 495 receptions
in 10 seasons. He -- who played his college football at the
University of Oregon -- will be inducted into the state of
Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1987 and the University of
Oregon Athletic Hall of Fame in 1992. He will also be the
author of a book, "Rashad: Vikes, Mikes, and Something on
the Backside," published by Viking Press. During the summer
of 1991, he will expand his broadcasting resume by handling
television play-by-play for the Seattle Seahawks pre-season
football games.
1955 - Carmen de Lavellade begins a contract for three seasons as a
dancer with the Metropolitan Opera.
1957 - Ottis Jerome "O.J." Anderson is born in West Palm Beach, Florida.
He will become a football running back who played professionally
in the National Football League (NFL). He will be named the NFL
Offensive Rookie of the Year by the Associated Press (AP) with
the St. Louis Cardinals in 1979, and the MVP of Super Bowl XXV in
1991 when playing with the New York Giants. He will play college
football at the University of Miami. During his college career,
he will break Chuck Foreman's career rushing records at the
University of Miami, becoming the first player to rush for more
than 1,000 yards in the school's history his senior year with
1,266 yards. He will be named The Sporting News and the American
Football Coaches First Team All-American and receive All-American
honorable mentions by both AP and UPI and will graduate in 1979
as the team's all-time leading rusher with 3,331 yards. He will
have one of the greatest debut games in NFL history, rushing for
193 yards, which was just 1 yard shy of Alan Ameche's all-time
record for an NFL debut. His single season 1,605 rushing yard
performance will be one of the few bright spots in the Cardinals'
1979 season, when they will finish 5-11. He will earn the first
of back-to-back Pro Bowl selections that year. In his first six
seasons, he will rush for over 1,000 yards in five seasons. The
lone exception will be in the 1982 strike-shortened season, when
he will rush for 587 yards in eight games; a pace for well over
1,000 yards in a full 16 game season. After a year and a half,
Stump Mitchell will emerged as the Cards' top running back, and
the expendable Anderson will be traded to the New York Giants in
the middle of the 1986 season. He will end up deep in the Giants'
depth chart. By this time in his career, it will be clear that he
will be better used in goal line or short yardage situations. He
will rush for only six yards on seven carries in the 1986 playoffs,
but will score a rushing touchdown in the Giants' victory over the
Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXI. In his first two and a half
seasons with New York, he will not fumble once in his 100 offensive
touches. In 1989, he will become the top running back for Bill
Parcells' ball control offense and will be named NFL Comeback Player
of the Year. He will score a career-high 14 rushing touchdowns, and
rush for 1,023 yards on 325 carries. He will also be the top running
back for the Giants the following year, when they will win Super Bowl
XXV, and be named Super Bowl MVP for his 102 yards and a touchdown on
21 carries. As a testament to the Giants' ball control strategy, their
time of possession was double that of the Buffalo Bills, their
opponents, in the first Super Bowl without a turnover. he will be one
of only four running backs in NFL history to score rushing touchdowns
in two Super Bowls and win Super Bowl MVP (only Franco Harris and John
Riggins will accomplish this feat before Anderson, and only Emmitt
Smith will achieved it since). He will be replaced by Rodney Hampton in
1991. His last season will be 1992. He will fumble just three times in
739 touches as a Giant, from 1987–1992. When he retires, he will rank
seventh in rushing TDs and eighth in rushing yards. At the 2014 season,
he will be ranked 18th in career rushing touchdowns and will be one of
29 running backs in the history of the NFL to rush for more than 10,000
yards (currently ranked 26th in career rushing yards).
1966 - Yolanda Gail Devers is born in Seattle, Washington. She will become
a track and field athlete. A two-time Olympic champion in the 100
meters for the USA, her 1996 win will make her only the second woman
(after Wyomia Tyus) to successfully defend an Olympic 100m title. She
will win a third Olympic gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay in 1996.
She will also be the 1993 World champion in the 100m and a three-time
World champion in the 100m hurdles. On February 2, 2007, at the age of
40, she will edge 2004 Olympic champion Joanna Hayes to win the 60 m
hurdles event at the Millrose Games in 7.86 seconds - the best time in
the world that season and just 0.12 off the record she set in 2003.
Furthermore, the time will better the listed World Record for a 40-year-
old by almost 7 tenths of a second. In 2011, she will be inducted into
the National Track and Field Hall of Fame. The following year she will
be elected into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame. In November
2012, she will be announced as a 2013 recipient of the NCAA Silver
Anniversary Award, presented annually to six distinguished former
college student-athletes on the 25th anniversary of the end of their
college sports careers.
1973 - Savion Glover is born in Newark, New Jersey. He will become a tap dancer,
actor, and choreographer. When he choreographs a piece, he will improvise
as he generates a dance sequence. As he finds rhythms, he will listen for
new sounds at many points on the stage. "I'm feelin' the stage for sounds.
You might find a spot on it that gives you that bass; you might find a
spot on the floor that gives you that dead type tom-tom sound." "I think
what makes Savion an incredible artist is his extraordinary joy in what he
does. He is able to live in that state of joy and not compromise his
emotional complexity like the earlier tap dancers had to," says George C.
Wolfe. In "The Tap Dance Kid" (1985), this musical will be based on the
1974 novel "Nobody's Family is Going to Change" by Louise Fitzhugh. His
Broadway debut, at the age of 11, will be as a replacement with this show.
The musical will be choreographed by Danny Daniels, with direction by Vivian
Matalon; the music will be by Henry Krieger and lyrics by Robert Lorick.
Reviews of this show will be mediocre. The New York Times will claim it was
a traditional story to give children a dream to look forward to, but was not
anything exceptional. However, the musical will go on to be nominated for
seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical. In the performance of "Black and
Blue" (1989), he will perform at the age of 15. For this performance, he
will become one of the youngest performers ever nominated for a Tony Award.
In "Jelly's Last Jam" (1992), the tap dancing will be choreographed by Ted
Levy and Gregory Hines, who will star as Jelly Roll Morton. He will play the
role of "Young Jelly", and will be nominated for the Drama Desk Award as
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical. In "Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in
'Da Funk" (1996), he will perform and also choreograph. He will be nominated
for the Tony Award, Actor in a Musical for his roles as Lil' Dahlin' and 'da
Beat and for Choreography. "Mr. Glover meticulously and respectfully
demonstrates the techniques made famous by each, then blends them all into an
exultant stylistic brew that belongs to no one but him. As dance, as musical,
as theater, as art, as history and entertainment, there's nothing Noise/Funk
cannot and should not do." -The New York Times. He will choreograph the musical
"Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That
Followed," which will open in 2016 at the Music Box Theatre. He will be
nominated for a Tony Award for Best Choreography and a Drama Desk Award for his
work on the musical.
1984 - Dwight Gooden, of the New York Mets, at 20 years old,
becomes the youngest major-league pitcher to be named
Rookie of the Year in the National League. The Mets
pitcher led the majors with 276 strikeouts.
1985 - Comedic character actor Stepin Fetchit, born Lincoln Theodore
Monroe Andrew Perry joins the ancestors at the age of 83.
1989 - Micheal Ray Stevenson is born in Compton, California. He will become a rapper,
singer, songwriter, actor, and television personality. He will be better
known by his stage name Tyga (a backronym for Thank you God always). After a
number of independent releases, he will sign a recording contract with Young
Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records and Republic Records in 2008. His
major label debut "Careless World: Rise of the Last King" will be released in
2011 and will include the successful singles "Rack City", "Faded" featuring
Lil Wayne, "Far Away" featuring Chris Richardson, "Still Got It" featuring
Drake, and "Make It Nasty". After disagreements with Young Money, his fourth
album "The Gold Album: 18th Dynasty" will be released independently on June 23,
2015 and will become his worst selling album to that point, selling just 5000
equivalent album units in its first week. After a long period of poor sales and
negative reviews from previous albums, his May 2018 single, "Taste" featuring
Offset, will peak at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, being his first Top 40
single since "Ayo" with Chris Brown in 2015. That single will later serve as
the lead single for his seventh album Legendary, which will eventually be
released in 2019.
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