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******* Today in Black History – December 13, 2019 *******
1903 - Ella Baker is born in
Norfolk, Virginia. A civil rights
worker who will direct the New York branch of the NAACP,
Baker will become executive director of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference in the 1960's during
student integration of lunch counters in the southern
states. She also will play a key role in the formation
of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and its
voter registration drive in Mississippi. She will join
the ancestors on December 13, 1986 in New York City.
1913 - Archibald Lee Wright
is born in Benoit, Mississippi.
Better known as Archie Moore, he will become a boxer and
win the light heavyweight crown in 1952. He will reign
as champion until 1959 and again in 1961. His will be one
of the longest professional careers in the history of
boxing. He will join the ancestors on December 9, 1998.
In 2002, he will be posthumously inducted into the St.
Louis Walk of Fame. In 2006, he will posthumously become
a California Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee and will be
named boxing's fourth Ring Magazine Best Punchers of all
time in 2003. He still holds the record for the most
career knockouts by any boxer, at 145.
1924 - Lawrence Eugene
"Larry" Doby is born in Camden, South
Carolina. He will become the first African American in
baseball's American League, playing for the Cleveland
Indians. He will be the 1954 RBI leader. His career
statistics include a .283 career average with 253 home
runs and 970 RBI in 1533 games. He will hit at least 20
homers in each season from 1949-56, leading the league in
1952 (32) and 1954 (32), and appearing between the top
ten leaders in seven seasons (1949, 1951-56). He will hit
for the cycle (1952), and also lead the league in runs in
1952 (104), RBI in 1954 (126), on base percentage in 1950
(.442), slugging average in 1952 (.541), and OPS in 1950
(.986). He will be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
in 1998. He will join the ancestors on June 18, 2003 in
Montclair, New Jersey.
1944 - The first African
American women complete officer training
for the WAVES (Women's Auxiliary Volunteers for Emergency
Service). They had been admitted to the corps two months
earlier.
1958 - Tim Moore, an actor
best known for his portrayal of Kingfish
on the Amos 'n' Andy television show, joins the ancestors
at the age of 70.
1981 - Popular African
American comedian Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham
joins the ancestors after a stroke at the age of 75. He
became famous in mainstream America, late in his life for
his "here comes de judge" routine popularized in
television's "Laugh-In."
1989 - President De Klerk of
South Africa meets with imprisoned
Nelson Mandela, at de Klerk's office in Cape Town, to talk
about the end of apartheid.
1997 - Charles Woodson, of
the University of Michigan, is awarded
the Heisman Trophy. He is the first defensive player ever
to win the coveted prize.
2018 - Nancy Wilson, whose
skilled and flexible approach to singing
provided a key bridge between the sophisticated jazz-pop
vocalists of the 1950s and the powerhouse pop-soul singers
of the 1960s and �70s, joins the ancestors at her home in
Pioneertown, California at the age of 81.
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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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