* Today in Black History - November 17 *
1842 - Fugitive slave George Latimer, is captured in Boston.
His capture leads to the first of the fugitive slave
cases which strain relationships between the North and
South. Boston abolitionists will raise money to purchase
Latimer from his slave owner.
1911 - Omega Psi Phi Fraternity is founded on the campus of
Howard University.
1943 - The USS Mason is launched as the first American ship manned
by a predominantly black crew. The Evarts-class destroyer
will carry an enlisted crew of 160 serving under Lt.
Commander William M. Blackford and five other white officers.
Prior to the Mason, black men in the Navy had been limited
to support roles such as cooks, stewards and laborers, and
even had to wear different uniforms than those worn by other
sailors. The commissioning of the Mason came about as a
result of intense pressure from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
and others to integrate the armed forces.
1945 - Elvin Earnest Hayes is born in Rayville, Louisiana. He will
become a professional basketball player and will play for the
San Diego/Houston Rockets and Baltimore/Capital/Washington
Bullets. In his career with the San Diego/Houston Rockets and
the Baltimore/Capital/Washington Bullets, he will play 1,303
games over 16 seasons, registering 27,313 points (ninth all-
time) and 16,279 rebounds (fourth all-time). He will be the
all-time leading scorer for the Washington Bullets/Wizards.
He will never miss more than two games in any of his 16
seasons in the NBA. In addition to his 1968 scoring title, he
will lead the NBA in rebounding in 1970 and 1974. He will play
in twelve straight NBA All-Star Games from 1969 to 1980. He will
be named to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team during the
1996�97 NBA season and be elected to the Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame in 1990. He will boycott the Hall of
Fame beginning in 1990 and refuse to return until Guy Lewis, his
coach at the University of Houston, is admitted. Lewis will be
admitted to the Hall of Fame in 2013, and he will be there for
the first time since his induction in 1990. In 2003, he will
also be inducted by the San Diego Hall of Champions into the
Breitbard Hall of Fame honoring San Diego's finest athletes both
on and off the playing surface. On November 22, 2010, it will be
announced that he will serve as an analyst for radio broadcasts
of Houston Cougars games on Houston's KBME.
1956 - Fullback Jim Brown of Syracuse University scores 43 pts against
Colgate, establishing a NCAA record.
1960 - RuPaul Andre Charles is born in San Diego, California. He will become
a drag queen, actor, model, singer, songwriter, and television
personality. Since 2009, he will produce and host the reality
competition series "RuPaul's Drag Race," for which he will receive
four Primetime Emmy Awards, in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. He will
be considered to be the most commercially successful drag queen in
the United States. In 2017, he will be included in the annual Time
100 list of the most influential people in the world. He will
settle in New York City where he will become a popular fixture on
the nightclub scene. He will achieve international fame as a drag
queen with the release of his debut single, "Supermodel (You Better
Work)", which will be included on his debut studio album Supermodel
of the World (1993). In 1994, he will become a spokesperson for MAC
Cosmetics, raising money for the Mac AIDS Fund and becoming the
first drag queen to land a major cosmetics campaign. That year, he
will receive his own talk show on VH1, "The RuPaul Show," which he
will host for over 100 episodes, while co-hosting the morning radio
show on WKTU with Michelle Visage. He will have continued success
as a recording artist, releasing 14 studio albums to date (as of
2017), including Foxy Lady (1996), Champion (2009), Glamazon (2011),
Born Naked (2014), and American (2017). As an actor, he will make
appearances in films including "Crooklyn" (1994), "The Brady Bunch
Movie" (1995), "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar"
(1995), "But I'm a Cheerleader" (1999), "Hurricane Bianca" (2016),
the Comedy Central series "Broad City" (2017), and the Netflix
original programming "Girlboss" (2017) and "Grace and Frankie"
(2019). He will also publish three books: "Lettin' It All Hang Out"
(1995), "Workin' It! RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the
Pursuit of Style" (2010), and "GuRu" (2018). Additionally, "RuPaul's
Drag Race" has produced eleven seasons to date (as of 2019) and will
inspire several spin-off series, including "RuPaul's Drag U" and
"RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars." He will also be featured as a host
on series such as "Skin Wars," "Good Work," and "Gay for Play" Game
Show Starring RuPaul. In June 2019, his daytime talk show "RuPaul"
will premier. He will be noted for his indifference toward the
gender-specific pronouns used to address him, as stated in his
autobiography: "You can call me he. You can call me she. You can
call me Regis and Kathie Lee; I don't care! Just as long as you
call me." He will also play men in a number of roles, and will
make public appearances both in and out of drag.
1965 - Winthrop Graham is born in Westmoreland, Jamaica. He will become a
track and field athlete specializing in the 400 metres hurdles. He
will win two Olympic medals and three World Championship medals.
His personal best time will be 47.60 seconds, achieved in August
1993 at the Zurich Weltklasse meet where he will beat Samuel
Matete and Kevin Young. This will also be the Jamaican record.
Collegiately, he will compete for the University of Texas Longhorns.
1967 - Ronald Boyd 'Ronnie' DeVoe, Jr. is born in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
He will be the second-to-last member to join New Edition (Johnny
Gill being the last) after being brought in by his uncle and the
group's choreographer, Brooke Payne. In 1981, the group will take
second place at a talent show which will catch the eye of record
producer, Maurice Starr, who will sign them to his Streetwise
record label. New Edition will go on to become the biggest-selling
boy band group from the mid to late 1980s. After New Edition's
1990 breakup, Devoe and fellow New Edition members, Ricky Bell and
Michael Bivins, will form the Rhythm & Blues/hip-hop group, Bell
Biv DeVoe. Bell Biv DeVoe's 1990 debut album, "Poison," will sell
more than 5 million copies and garner five hit singles such as
"Poison" and "B.B.D. (I Thought It Was Me)?". In 1993, he and the
group will release their follow-up album, "Hootie Mack." In 1996,
he will reunite with the other original members of New Edition which
will see the release of the album, "Home Again," followed by a world
tour ending in 1997. In 2001, he and Bell Biv DeVoe will release
their third album, "BBD." He will still perform and record with New
Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe and be co-owner of DeVoe Broker Associates,
a real estate agency in Atlanta, Georgia.
1978 - Two FBI agents testify before the House Select Committee on
Assassinations that the bureau's long-term surveillance of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. was based solely on J. Edgar Hoover's "hatred of the
civil rights leader" and not on the civil rights leader's alleged
communist influences or linkages with radical groups.
1980 - Howard University's WHMM-TV starts broadcasting. It is the first
African American-owned public-broadcasting television station.
1990 - Itabari Njeri receives the American Book Award for Outstanding
Contribution in American Literature for her book, "Every Good-bye
Ain't Gone." Also honored is poet Sonia Sanchez, who receives a
lifetime achievement award.
1998 - Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) is elected as chairperson of the
Congressional Black Caucus. He is the first Southerner to head the
group, since it was founded in 1971. He had been first elected to
Congress in 1992, the first African American to represent South
Carolina since Reconstruction.
1998 - Esther Rolle, the Emmy Award-winning actress, who won acclaim on the
hit CBS sitcom "Good Times" as well as on stage and in the movies,
joins the ancestors at her home in Los Angeles, at the age of 78.
2006 - Ruth Brown, the gutsy Rhythm and Blues singer whose career extended
to acting and crusading for musicians' rights, joins the ancestors
in Las Vegas at the age of 78, succumbing to complications of a
heart attack and stroke following surgery.
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