*		 Today in Black History - October 12          *

1904 - William Montague Cobb is born in Washington, DC. He will
	become the only Black physical anthropologist with a 
	Ph.D. before the Korean War, He will hold the only Black
	perspective on physical anthropology for many years. 
	He will serve as the Chairman of the Anthropology 
	Section of the American Association for Advancement of 
	Science and be the first African American President of 
	the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
	He will be not only a famous physical anthropologist 
	because of his race, but also because of the great
	contributions he made to the field of anthropology. He
	grew up pondering the question of race, which ultimately 
	led him to his studies of anthropology. After graduating
	from Dunbar High School, he will continue his studies at
	Amherst College, where he will study a wide variety of 
	subjects and graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree. 
	After his graduation from Amherst, he will research 
	embryology at the prestigious Woods Hole Marine Biology
	Laboratory in Massachusetts. He will then attend Howard
	University Medical School, where he will earn an Masters
	Degree in 1929 and will later spend much of his 
	professional career. The next few years, he will spend 
	his time at Case Western Reserve University, where he will
	earn a Ph.D. and work on the Hamann-Todd Skeletal 
	Collection. He will return to Howard University in 1932 
	and begin working on a laboratory of his own to conduct
	skeletal research. He will also continue his research on 
	human cranio-facial union at the Hamann-Todd Collection 
	and the Smithsonian Institute during the summers. In his
	mind, his two best papers on this subject were "The 
	Cranio-Facial Union and the Maxillary Tuber in Mammals" 
	(1943), and "Cranio-Facial Union in Man" (1940). These
	publications will establish him as a functional anatomist.
	He will also make significant contributions in the issue 
	of race in athletics, where he will claim race was
	insignificant to athletics and also profile the biology 
	and demography of the African American race during the 
	1930's. He will leave his legacy of skeletal research with
	the Laboratory of Anatomy and Physical Anthropology at 
	Howard University. This collection of over 600 skeletons 
	will be considered one of the premiere collections of its 
	kind. He will also be the editor of the Journal of the 
	National Medical Association from 1949 to 1977. He will 
	join the ancestors on November 20, 1990.

1908 - Ann Lane Petry is born in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.  She 
	will become the author of "The Street and the Juvenile
	Work", and "Harriet Tubman, Conductor of the 
	Underground Railroad." She will join the ancestors on
	April 28, 1997.

1925 - Xavier University, America's only African American 
	Catholic college, becomes a reality, when the College 
	of Liberal Arts	and Sciences is established.  The 
	first degrees were awarded three years later. (The 
	Normal School was founded in 1915.)

1929 - Napoleon Brown Goodson Culp is born in Charlotte, North 
	Carolina.  He will become a blues singer better known as 
	"Nappy" Brown.  He will	begin his career as the lead singer 
	for the gospel group, The Heavenly Lights, recording for 
	Savoy Records.  In 1954, Savoy will convince Brown to 
	cross over to secular music.  For the next few years, 
	he will ride the first wave of rock and roll until his
	records stop selling.  After years away from the 
	limelight, he will resurface in 1984 with an album for 
	Landslide Records.  He will then regularly perform and 
	record for the New Moon Blues independent label. He will
	join the ancestors on September 20, 2008.

1932 - Richard Claxton Gregory is born in St. Louis, Missouri. 
	He will be better known as "Dick" Gregory and in the 
	1960's will become a comedic pioneer, bringing a new 
	perspective to comedy and opening many doors for Black
	entertainers. Once he achieves success in the 
	entertainment world, he will shift gears and use his
	talents to help causes in which he believes.  He will
	serve the community for over forty years as a comedian,
	civil and human rights activist and health/nutrition 
	advocate. On October 9, 2000, his friends and 
	supporters will honor him at a Kennedy Center gala, 
	showing him their "appreciation for his uncommon 
	character, unconditional love, and generous service."

1935 - Samuel David Moore is born in Winchester, Georgia.  He 
	will become a rhythm and blues singer and one half of 
	the group: Sam & Dave (Dave Prater).  The two singers 
	will be brought together onstage at Miami's King of Hearts 
	nightclub during an amateur night venue. Sam and Dave
	will record for the Alston and Roulette labels before
	being discovered by Atlantic Records' Jerry Wexler, 
	who caught their act at the King of Hearts in 1964 and
	then sent them to Memphis-based Stax to record the 
	next year.  They will be best know for their hits, 
	"Hold On! I'm a Comin'", "Soul Man", "I Thank You", 
	and "You Got Me Hummin'".  Sam and Dave will finally
	call it quits after a performance in San Francisco on
	New Year's Eve in 1981.  Samuel Moore will live to see
	the induction of Sam and Dave into the Rock and Roll 
	Hall of Fame in 1992 (Dave Prater will be killed in an
	automobile accident on April 9, 1988).  
	
1968 - Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain.

1972 - Forty-six African American and white sailors are 
	injured in a racially motivated insurrection aboard 
	the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, off the coast of 
	North Vietnam.

1989 - George Beavers, Jr., the last surviving founder of 
	Golden State Life Insurance Company of Los Angeles, 
	California, joins the ancestors. He co-founded this 
	company in 1925, which is the third largest African 
	American life insurance company, with $120 million in
	assets and $5 billion of insurance in force.

1989 - Herschel Walker is traded from the Dallas Cowboys to 
	the Minnesota Vikings for 12 players.  The trade will
	turn out a lot better for Dallas than for Minnesota.

1999 - Wilt Chamberlain joins the ancestors.  He succumbs to 
	a heart attack at the age of 63 in his Bel Air home 
	in Los Angeles, California. Chamberlain was a center 
	so big, agile and dominant that he forced basketball 
	to change its rules and is the only player to score
	100 points in an NBA game.

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