OV. 28 - Dec. 4 1993 MICHIGAN ITIZEN P e 11
This Week In Black History
ovember 28 - December 4
NOVEMBER 28, 1959-
1966 -Bill R 11 led the
Boston Celtics to 8 traight
championships. 1914 - W.C.
Handy published St. L<>Ws
Woman. 1961 - Ernie
D w, running back fo-r
Syracuse University, became
the first Black to win the Heis­
man Trophy.
"Roots" has been reprinted
in how many languages? .
NOVEMBER 29, 1894 -
Lincoln University won a
football game against Howard
University in the first football
contest between these two
Black colleges. 1957 -Jackie
Robinson retired from base­
ball.
The first Black-chartered;
Black-run commercial bank
was located where?
NOVEMBER 30, 1837j -
Canada granted voting rights
to Blacks. 1897 -JA Sweet­
ing patented cigarette-rolling
device. 1981 - Rennaissance
Theater Company (New Ha­
ven) staged its first Santa's In­
ternational Sleigh Ride,
starring Garnett Myers Jr.,
as a Black Santa. 1907 -
Alain Locke was the first M- I
rican-American to win a pres- I
tigious Rhodes scholarship.
1865-Freedman' Bureau
to aid former slaves was estab­
lished.
How Many Blacks were
with John Brown during his
attack at Herper's ferry?
DECEMBER 1, 1955 - In
Montgomery, Ala., Ro
Parks was arrested for refus­
ing to give her bus seat to a
white man, sparking the
Montgomery bus boycott. 1987
- Came Saxon Perry in­
augurated mayor of Hartford,
Conn., becoming first Black
woman mayor of a majOr U.S.
ci ty. 1950 - Gwendolyn
Broo became the first Afri­
can-American to win a Pul­
tizer Prize, for Annie Allen, a
collection' of poems. 1966 -
The term "Black Power" popu­
larized by Stokely Car- ,
michael.
On which space missions
did Dr. George Carruther's
camera gain noteriety �
DECEMBER 2, 1496-Co­
lumbus landed in Haiti. 1884
- Granville T. Wood pat-
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1989 - Andre Ware of the
University of Houston became
the first Black quarterback
ever to win the Heisman Tr0-
phy. -Obba Babatunde ap­
peared as "Cocky" in a newly
conceived version of Roar of
the Greasepaint, Smell oCThe
Crowd at the Coconut Grove
Playhouse in Miami. 1960's­
Leontyne Price became the
reigning prima donna of the
Metropolitan Opera House.
1859 - John Brown was
convicted of treason and
hanged. 1918 - Paul R0be­
son of Rutgers was selected to
the prestigious Walter Camp
All-American football team.
Frederick Doug! pub­
lished first' ue of North Star.
1990 - very Broo stared
in Othello as produced by the
Shakespeare Theatre at th
Folger in Washington, D. C.
1988 - For the first time ever,
three Black colleges, Lincoln,
Spelman and Bennett, were
headed by women. 1818-1893
- Ch rle L. Re on,
prominent educator, became
an instructor at New York's
African Free School at age 14.
Neglected History and 1967 -
Negro Americans in the Civil
War are importnat works by
noted historian C II.
W eye
Name the book uiritten by
William C. NeU that described
the role Blacks played in the
War of 1776 and 1.812.
An wer
28th - Twenty-three.
29th - Harlem, NY.
30th-Five.
1 - Apollo 16 and Sky-
lab-4. .
2nd - Dizzy Gillespie and
Charlie Parker.
3rd - Marcus Allen.
4th - The Colored Patriots
of the American Revolution.
Who won the Heisman. Tr0-
phy in 198!?
DECE:MBER 4, 1909 -
The New York Amsterdam
News was founded by Jam
A. And rson. 1941 - John
Borican became the first man
in the U.S. to win the pentath­
lon and decathlon champion­
ships in the same year. 1965-
Who were the co-founders of
the most revolutionary move­
ment in jazz known as "Bop"?
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