*              Today in Black History - November 30           *

1869 - John Roy Lynch is elected to the Mississippi House of
	Representatives.

1912 - Gordon Parks, Sr. is born in Fort Scott, Kansas.  In the 
	late 1930's, while working as a railroad porter, he 
	will become interested in photography and launch his 
	career as a photographer and photojournalist.  From 
	1943 to 1945, he will be a correspondent for the Office 
	of War Information, giving national exposure to his 
	work.  This will lead to him becoming a staff 
	photographer for Life magazine in 1948.  He will branch 
	off into film and television in the 1950's and in 1968 
	will produce, direct, and write the script and music 
	for the production of his book, "The Learning Tree."  
	He will also direct and write the music scores for the 
	movies "Shaft," "Shaft's Big Score," The Super Cops," 
	"Leadbelly,"  "Odyssey of Solomon Northrup" and "Moments 
	Without Proper Names." He will also direct "Superfly," 
	"Three The Hard Way," "Aaron Loves Angela," and be 
	called a "Twentieth Century Renaissance Man" by the 
	NAACP, who will award him its Spingarn Medal in 1972.  
	The Library of Congress will honor him in 1982 with the 
	National Film Registry Classics designation for his 
	film, "The Learning Tree." He will join the ancestors
	on March 7, 2006.

1924 - Shirley Anita St. Hill (later Chisholm) is born in 
	Brooklyn, New York. While an education consultant for New
	York City's day-care division, she will become active in 
	community and political activities that included the 
	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 
	(NAACP) and her district's Unity Democratic Club.  She 
	will begin her political career at the age of 40, when she 
	is elected to the state assembly. In 1968, she will be the
	first African American woman elected to Congress, 
	defeating civil-rights leader James Farmer, who had 
	asserted in his campaign that African American voters 
	needed "a man's voice in Washington."  She will run for 
	President in 1972 and continue her Congressional duties
	until 1982.

1933 - Sam Gilliam is born in Tupelo, Mississippi. He will become
	an artist known for his unique manipulation of materials
	that result in painted sculpture or suspended paintings.
	His work will be shown at the 36th Venice Miennale as well
	as in the exhibit "African-American Artists 1880-1987."

1937 - Robert Guillaume (Williams) is born in St. Louis, Missouri.
	He will become an actor and be best known for his roles in 
	the sit-coms "Soap" and "Benson".

1944 - Luther Ingram is born in Jackson, Mississippi.  He will 
	become a rhythm and blues musician and singer and will be 
	best known for the song, "(If Lovin' You is Wrong) I Don't
	Want to be Right."

1948 - The Negro National League (Professional Baseball) officially
	disbands.   Although black teams will continue to play for
	several years, they will no longer be major league caliber. 
	The demise of the Negro Leagues was inevitable as the 
	younger black players were signed by the white major league
	franchises.
 
1953 - Albert Michael Espy is born in Yazoo City, Mississippi.  In
	1987, he will be sworn in as the state's first African 
	American congressman since John Roy Lynch more than 100 
	years before. He will become Secretary of Agriculture 
	during the Bill Clinton	administration.  Leaving the 
	cabinet under fire and indicted for corruption, he will 
	later be vindicated when he is found not guilty.
	
1956 - Archie Moore is defeated by Floyd Patterson, as Patterson 
	wins the heavyweight boxing title vacated by the retired 
	Rocky Marciano.  At the age of 21, Patterson becomes the 
	youngest boxer to be named heavyweight champion.

1962 - Bo Jackson is born in Bessemer, Alabama.  The 1985 Heisman 
	Trophy winner will be one of the few professional athletes 
	to play in two sports - football and baseball. 
        
1965 - Judith Jamison makes her debut with Alvin Ailey's American 
	Dance Theatre in Chicago, dancing in Talley Beaty's Congo 
	Tango Palace.  Jamison will rejoin the company in 1988 as
	artistic associate due to the failing health of Alvin 
	Ailey. she will become the company's artistic director in 
	1989 upon Ailey's death. 

1966 - Barbados gains its independence from Great Britain. 

1975 - The state of Dahomey becomes the People's Republic of 
	Benin.

1981 - The NAACP's Spingarn Medal is awarded to Coleman A. Young 
	"in recognition of his singular accomplishments as mayor 
	of the City of Detroit." 

1990 - Ruth Washington, long-time publisher of the Los Angeles 
	Sentinel, joins the ancestors.  Following the death of 
	her husband Chester, Washington acted as publisher of the
	weekly newspaper, founded in 1933, for sixteen years.

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