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1870 - Congress passes a
resolution readmitting Mississippi to the
Union on the condition that it will never change its
constitution to disenfranchise African Americans.
1918 - Charles Hayes is born
in Cairo, Illinois. He will be elected
to the House of Representatives succeeding Harold Washington
in 1983. He will join the ancestors on April 8, 1997.
1933 - Robert "Bobby"
Lewis is born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He will become
a Rhythm and Bluaaes singer, who
will be at his peak in the 1960's,
and will be best-known for his recordings of "Tossin' & Turnin',"
and "One Track Mind." "Tossin'
& Turnin'" will sell over one
million copies and be awarded a gold disc. "One Track
Mind", his
only other major hit record, peaked at No. 9. "Tossin' And Turnin'",
composed by Ritchie Adams and Malou
Rene, will be featured on the
soundtrack for the 1978 film "Animal House." The
song will also
be covered by Steve Goodman, the Replacements, the Guess Who,
Peter
Criss, and Jimmy Sturr, among
others.
1936 - James Nathaniel (Jim)
Brown is born in Saint Simons, Georgia. He
will become a professional football player and actor. He is
best
known for his exceptional and record-setting nine year career
as
a fullback for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football
League (NFL) from 1957 to 1965. In 2002, he will be named by
Sporting News as the greatest professional football player
ever.
He is widely considered to be one of the greatest
professional
athletes in the history of the United States. He will be
selected
in the first round of the 1957 draft by the Cleveland Browns.
He
will depart as the NFL record holder for both single-season
(1,863
in 1963) and career rushing (12,312 yards), as well as the
all-time
leader in rushing touchdowns (106), total touchdowns (126),
and
all-purpose yards (15,549). He will be the first player ever
to
reach the 100-rushing-touchdowns milestone, and only a few
others
will do so to date, despite the league's expansion to a
16-game
season in 1978. Note: His first four seasons were only 12
games,
and his last five were 14 games. His record of scoring 100
touchdowns in only 93 games will stand until LaDainian
Tomlinson
did it in 89 games during the 2006 season. He will hold the
record
for total seasons leading the NFL in all-purpose yards (five:
1958�1961, 1964), and will be the only rusher in NFL
history to
average over 100 yards per game for a career. In addition to
his
rushing, He will be a superb receiver out of the backfield,
catching
262 passes for 2,499 yards and 20 touchdowns, while also
adding
another 628 yards returning kickoffs. Every season he played,
he
will be voted into the Pro Bowl, and he will leave the league
in
style, by scoring three touchdowns in his final Pro Bowl
game.
Perhaps the most amazing feat, is that he will accomplish
these
records despite never playing past 29 years of age. His six
games
with at least 4 touchdowns will remain an NFL record, to
date.
LaDainian Tomlinson and Marshall Faulk will both have five
games
with 4 touchdowns. He will lead the league in rushing a
record eight
times. He will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
in 1971.
The Sporting News will select him as the greatest football
player of
all time. His football accomplishments at Syracuse will
garner him a
berth in the College Football Hall of Fame. He will also earn
a spot
in the Lacrosse Hall of Fame, giving him a rare triple crown
of sorts,
as well as being one of the few athletes to become a Hall of
Fame
member in more than one sport. After his football career, he
will
become a movie star and will establish the Negro Industrial
and
Economic Union, and work with African American youth with the
Amer-I-Can program, which he will establish.
1938 - Mary Frances Berry is
born in Nashville, Tennessee. She will
be an influential force in education and civil rights, become
the first woman of any
race to serve as chancellor of a major
research university (University of Colorado in 1976), and
a
member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
1941 - Joe Louis retains his
world heavyweight boxing crown by
knocking out Gus Dorazio.
1942 - Huey Percy Newton is
born in Monroe, Louisiana. He will become a
political and urban activist who, along with Bobby Seale,
will co-
found the Black Panther Party in 1966. He will be the party's
Minister
of Defense. He will have a long series of confrontations with
law
enforcement, including several convictions, while
participating in
political activism. He will continue to pursue an education,
eventually
earning a Ph.D. in Social Science from the University of
California
Santas Cruz in 1980. He will spend
time in prison for manslaughter, due
to his alleged involvement in a shooting that killed a police
officer,
but was later acquitted. On August 22, 1989, he will join the
ancestors.
after being shot and killed in Oakland, California, by Tyrone
"Double R"
Robinson, a member of the Black Guerrilla Family.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain, of
the NBA Philadelphia Warriors, scores 67
points against the St. Louis Hawks.
1963 - Michael Jeffrey
Jordan, who will be a star basketball player
for the University of North Carolina, the 1984 Olympic gold
medal team and the Chicago Bulls, is born in Brooklyn, New
York. Jordan's phenomenal style and scoring ability will earn
him universal acclaim and selection on more than eight all-
star NBA teams and NBA Most Valuable Player more than four
times.
1982 - Thelonious Monk, jazz
pianist and composer, joins the ancestors
at the age of 64.
1989 - The African countries
of Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia
& Libya form an economic common market.
1997 - The Virginia House of
Delegates votes unanimously to retire the
state song, "Carry me back to Old Virginny,"
a tune which
glorifies the institution of slavery.
2016 - Channing Dungey, executive VP of drama at ABC, is named president
of ABC Entertainment Group. She is the first African American
to
lead a major broadcast network. She replaces outgoing
president
Paul Lee, who helmed ABC programming since 2010 and pushed
for
more diversity at the network.
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The source for these facts are "Encyclopedia Britannica,
"Before the
Mayflower", "Black Firsts" and independent
research by Mr. Rene’ A. Perry, Sr.
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