* Today in Black History - November 21 *
1654 - Richard Johnson, a free African American, is granted 550
acres in Northampton County, Virginia.
1784 - James Armistead is cited by French General Lafayette for
his valuable service to the American forces in the
Revolutionary War. Armistead, who was born into slavery
24 years earlier, had worked as a double agent for the
Americans while supposedly employed as a servant of
British General Cornwallis.
1865 - Shaw University is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1893 - Granville T. Woods, inventor, receives a patent for the
"Electric Railway Conduit."
1904 - Coleman Randolph Hawkins is born in St. Joseph, Missouri. He
will be one of the first prominent jazz musicians on the
tenor saxophone even though the instrument was not an
acknowledged jazz horn. While he is strongly associated with
the swing music and big band era, he will have a role in the
development of bebop in the 1940s. He will join the ancestors
on May 19, 1969.
1918 - Henry B. Delany is elected saffragan bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese of North Carolina.
1944 - Vernon Earl "The Pearl" Monroe is born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He will become a professional basketball player
and will play for two teams, the Baltimore Bullets and the
New York Knicks, during his career in the National Basketball
Association (NBA). Both teams will retire his number. A four-
time NBA All-Star, he will retire after the 1980 season due to
serious knee injuries, which had plagued him throughout his
career. He will play 926 NBA career games, score 17,454 total
points (18.8 ppg) and dish out 3,594 assists. In 1990, he will
be enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
He will be named one of the 50 players on the NBA 50th
Anniversary All-Time Team in 1996.
1948 - Leroy "Lonnie" Jordan is born in San Diego, California. He will
become a singer-songwriter. He will be a founding member of War,
an American funk band in the 1970s and 1980s. He will have a
number of roles over the years, acting as vocalist and playing
guitar, piano, synthesizer, and percussion. He will be among the
first three people to join the group after its inception, having
joined before the group adopted the name "War" (it will previously
be known as "the Creators" and "Nightshift"), as well as being the
group's only remaining original member. He will record as a solo
artist with MCA in 1977 and Boardwalk in 1982. He will also
record with Eric Burdon, Tanya Tucker, T. Rex and Los Lobos. He
will also make a record with two members of War, Harold Brown and
B.B. Dickerson, "The Other Side of War Warms Your Heart" on
Soufflé Records, which will feature Bobby Womack on Guitar. Lonnie
Jordan will be the only current member of War from the original
lineup. Four other members created a new group called Lowrider Band.
In 2017, he will co-write and feature on vocal on Alex Puddu album
"From the Beginning" on three songs Runaway Boys, Nobody and Stormy
Weather.
1971 - Michael Anthony Strahan is born in Houston, Texas. He will become
a football defensive end who will spend his entire 15-year career
with the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL).
He will set a record for the most sacks in a season in 2001, and
will help the Giants win Super Bowl XLII over the New England
Patriots in his final season in 2007. After retiring from the NFL,
he will become a media personality. He will be elected to the Pro
Football Hall of Fame in 2014. He will be a football analyst on
Fox NFL Sunday, and co-host of ABC's Good Morning America and its
spinoff, Strahan, Sara and Keke. He will be previously on the
syndicated daytime talk show Live! with Kelly and Michael with co-
host Kelly Ripa from 2012 to 2016, where he will be a two-time
Daytime Emmy Award winner. In 2014, he will become a regular
contributor on Good Morning America, and in 2016 the network will
announce that he would be leaving Live! to join GMA on a full-time
basis.
1984 - TransAfrica's Randall Robinson, DC congressional delegate
Walter Fauntroy, and U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Mary
Frances Berry are arrested at a sit-in demonstration in
front of the South African Embassy in Washington, DC.
Their demonstration against apartheid will be repeated and
spread to New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and other
cities, and involve such notables as Jesse Jackson, Arthur
Ashe, Harry Belafonte, and Stevie Wonder. Their efforts
will play a large part in the passage of the Anti-Apartheid
Act of 1986, which will impose economic sanctions against
South Africa.
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