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B11091731 Benjamin Banneker, black inventor and scientist, born in
B1109     Ellicott's Mills Maryland.
B11161873 W.C. Handy born in Florence, Alabama.

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S11211654 Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in North
S1121     ampton County, Va., for importing election persons.
S11061746 Absalom Jones, major leader of Black Pioneer period, born in
S1106     slavery in Sussex, Delaware.
S11071775 Lord  Dunmore, deposed royal governor of Virginia, issued
S1107     proclamation which promised freedom to male slaves who join
S1107     ed the British army.
S11121775 General Washington issued order which forbade recruiting of
S1112     ficers to enlist blacks.
S11291780 Lemuel Haynes, Revolutionary War veteran, licensed to preach
S1129     in the Congregational Church.  After the winter of Valley
S1129     Forge, blacks slaves and free men were welcomed into the
S1129     American Army.  There were black soldiers in the Revolution
S1129     ary army from all of the orginal thirteen colonies.  Most of
S1129     the estimated five thousand black soldiers fought in inte
S1129     grated units.  Blacks soldiers were in the front lines in
S1129     most of the big battles of the war.  They were at White
S1129     Plains, Stillwater, Bennington, Bemis Heights, Saratoga,
S1129     Stony Points, Trenton, Princeton, Eutaw, S.C., and Yorktown.
S1129     Blacks were critical factors in the battles of Rhode Island,
S1129     Long Island, Red Bank, Savannah, Monmouth and Fort Griswold.
S1129     There were black fifers and drummers in some units.
S11011787 First free school in New York City, the African Free School
S1101     opened.
S11111831 Nat Turner hanged, Jerusalem, Virginia.
S11071837 Elijah P. Lovejoy murdered by proslavery mob while defending
S1107     his press in Alton, Illinois.
S11131839 Liberty party, the first antislavery political party, orga
S1113     nized at Warsaw, New York.  Samuel Ringgold Ward and Henry
S1113     Highland Garnet were among the earliest supporters of the
S1113     new political departure.
S11071841 Slave revolt on the Creole, which was en route to New Orl
S1107     eans, from Hampton, Virginia.  Rebels overpowered crew and
S1107     sailed ship to the Bahamas, where they were granted asylum
S1107     and freedom.
S11251841 Thirty-five Amistad survivors returned to Africa.
S11171842 Capture of George Latimer in Boston led to first of the fug
S1117     itive slave cases which embittered North and South.  Boston abo
S1117     litionists raised money to purchase Latimer from his slave
S1117     holder.
S11061860 Abraham Lincoln elected president.
S11201865 Blacks held protest convention in Zion Church in Charleston
S1120     and demanded equal rights and repeal of the Black Codes.
S11221865 Mississippi legislature enacted Black Codes which restricted
S1122     the rights and freedom of movement of the freedmen.  The
S1122     Black Codes enacted in Mississippi and other Southern states
S1122     virtually reenslaved the freedmen.  Im some states any white
S1122     could arrest any black.  In order states minor officials
S1122     could arrest black "vagrants" and "refractory and rebellions
S1122     Negroes" and force them to work on roads and levees without
S1122     pay.  "Servants" in South Carolina were required to work
S1122     from sunrise to sunset, to be quiet and orderly and go to
S1122     bed at "reasonable hours."  It was a crime in Mississippi
S1122     for blacks to own farm land; in South Carolina blacks has
S1122     to get a special license to work outside the domestic and
S1122     farm laborer categories.
S11051867 First Reconstruction constitutional convention (eighteen
S1105     blacks, ninety whites) opened in Montgomery, Alabama.
S11191867 South Carolina citizens endorsed constitutional convention
S1119     and selected delegates.  Records indicated that 66,418 bla
S1119     cks and 2350 whites voted for the convention and 2278 whites
S1119     voted against holding a convention.  The total vote cast
S1119     was 71,046.  Not a single black voted against the conven
S1119     tion.
S11231867 Louisiana constitutional convention (forty-nine white dele
S1123     gates and forty-nine black delegates) met in Mechanics In
S1123     stitute, New Orleans.
S11031868 First black elected to Congress John W. Menard, defeated a
S1103     white candidate, 5,107 to 2,833, in an election in Louisi
S1103     ana's Second Congressional District to fill an unexpired
S1103     term in the Fortieth Congress.  U.S. Grant elected presi
S1103     dent with black voters in the South providing the decisive
S1103     margin.  Grant received a minority of the white votes in
S1103     defeating Democrat Horatio Seymour, 3,015,071 votes to
S1103     2,709,613.
S11061868 Jonathan Gibbs, minister and educator, appointed secretary
S1106     of state by the Florida governor.
S11091868 Arkansas Governor Powell Clayton declared martial law in
S1109     ten countries and mobilized the state militia in Ku Klux
S1109     Klan crisis.
S11301869 James Lynch elected secretary of state in Mississippi elec
S1130     tion.
S11081870 Democratic governor elected in Tennessee.
S11221871 Lt. Gov. Oscar J. Dunn died suddenly in the midst of a bit
S1122     ter struggle for control of the Louisiana state government.
S1122     Dunn aides charged that he was poisoned.
S11281871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in Co
S1128     lumbia, South Carolina.
S11041872 Three blacks elected to major offices in Louisiana electi
S1104     ons:  C.C Antoine, lieutenant governor; P.G. Deslonde, se
S1104     cretary of state; W.B. Brown, Superintendent of public ed
S1104     ucation.  P.B.S. Pinchback was elected congressman at large.
S1104     Fourth black official, Treasurer Antoine Dubuclet, won elec
S1104     tions in 1870 and 1874.
S11261872 South Carolina General Assembly met in Columbia Stephen A.
S1126     Swails was elected president pro tem of the senate, and Sam
S1126     uel J. Lee was elected Speaker of the house.  The Assembly
S1126     named four blacks to the seven-man governing board of the
S1126     University of South Carolina:  Samuel J. Lee, J.A. Bowley,
S1126     Stephen A. Swails and W.R. Jervey.   Macon B. Allen was ele
S1126     cted judge od the Inferior Court of Charleston.  Allen, the
S1126     first black lawyer, thus became the second black to hold a
S1126     major judicial position and the first black with a major
S1126     judicial position on the municipal level.
S11161873 Blacks won three state offices in Mississippi election:  Al
S1116     exander K. Davis, Lieutenant governor; James Hill, secretary
S1116     of state; T.W. Cardozo, superintendent of education.  Blacks
S1116     won 55 of the 115 seats in the house and 9 out of 37 seats
S1116     in the senate, 42 per cent of the total number.
S11161873 Richard T. Greener, first black graduate of Harvard Univer
S1116     sity, named professor of metaphysics at the University of
S1116     South Carolina.
S11031874 James Theodore Holly, a black American who emigrated to Hai
S1103     ti in 1861, elected bishop of Haiti.  He was consecrated in
S1103     a cermony at New York's Grace Church on November 8.
S11041874 Democrats swept off-years elections, winning a majority in
S1104     the House of Representatives.
S11241874 Robert B. Elliott elected Speaker of the lower house of the
S1124     South Carolina legislature. Stephen A Swails was reelected
S1124     president pro tem of the senate.
S11021875 Democrats suppressed black vote by fraud and violence and
S1102     carried Mississippi election.  "The Mississippi Plan" staged
S1102     riots, political assassinations, massacres and social and
S1102     economic intimidation was used later to overthrow Reconstru
S1102     ction governments in South Carolina and Louisiana.
S11071876 President Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden claimed
S1107     the presidential election.  Republicans and Democrats claim
S1107     ed elections in Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida.
S11071876 Edward A. Bouchet received the Ph.D degree in physics at
S1107     Yale University and became the first black to receive a
S1107     doctorate at an American University.
S11071876 Edward Bannister, the first black artist to win wide crit
S1107     ical acclaim, awarded prize at Philadephia Centennial Expo
S1107     sition for his work Under the Oak.
S11071876 Meharry Medical College established at Central Tennesse Col
S1107     lege.
S11021880 Republican James A. Garfield elected president.
S11241880 More than 150 delegates from Baptist Churches in eleven sta
S1124     tes organized the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention of the
S1124     United States at a meeting in Montgomery, Alabama.  Rev. Wi
S1124     lliam H. McAlphine was elected president.
S11241880 Southern University established.
S11031883 Race riot, Danville, Virginia.  Four blacks killed.
S11261883 Death of Sojourner Truth, Battle Creek, Michigan.
S11041884 Grover Cleveland won election and became the first Democra
S1104     tic president of the United States since the Civil War.
S11151884 Colonization of Africa orgainized at international confer
S1115     ence in Berlin, November 15, February 26.
S11221884 T. Thomas Fortune started New York Freeman, which later be
S1122     came the New York Age.  The Philadelphia Tribune founded by
S1122     Christopher J. Perry.
S11061888 Republican Benjamin Harrison elected president.  Sixty-nine
S1106     blacks reported lynched in 1888.
S11081892 Democrat Grover Cleveland elected president.  One hundred
S1108     and sixty one blacks reported lynched.
S11031896 Republican William McKinley defeated Democratic candidate
S1103     William J. Bryan in presidential race.  Seventy-eight blacks
S1103     reported lynched in 1896.  South Carolina State College
S1103     established.
S11151897 Death of John Mercer Langston (67), Washington, D.C. One
S1115     hundred and twenty-three blacks reported lynched in 1897.
S1115     Langston University and Voorhees College founded.
S11101898 Race riot, Wilmington, North Carolina.  Eight blacks were
S1110     killed.  National Benefit Life Insurance Company organized
S1110     in Washington, D.C., Samuel w. Rutherford.  National Benefit
S1110     was the largest black insurance company for several years.
S11101898 One hundred and one blacks reported lynched in 1898.
S11061900 Republican William McKinley defeated William Bryan in presi
S1106     dential elections.  One hundred and six blacks reported
S1106     lynched in 1900.  James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond John
S1106     son composed "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing."
S11231905 Henery Watson Furness, an Indiana physican, named minister
S1123     of Haiti.  He was the last black minister to Haiti in this
S1123     period.  Woodrow Wilson appointed a white minister in 1913.
S11231905 Fifty-seven blacks reported lynched in 1905.
S11061906 President Roosevelt ordered dischard of three companies of
S1106     Twenty-fifth Regiment for alleged involvement in the Browns
S1106     ville Raid.  Sixty-two blacks reported lynched in 1906.
S11071909 Knights and Ladies of St. Peter Claver organized in Mobile,
S1107     Alabama, by four Posephite priests and three Catholic lay
S1107     men.
S11011910 First issue of the Crisis published by editor W.E.B. Du
S1101     Bois.
S11051912 Woodrow Wilson elected president.  Sixty-one blacks reported
S1105     lynched.  St. Louis Argus established.
S11141915 Death of Booker T. Washington (59) educator and organizier,
S1114     in Tuskegee, Alabama.
S11071916 Woodrow Wilson reelected president.  Spingarn Medal awarded
S1107     to Col. Charles Young, U.S. Army, for organizing the Liberi
S1107     an constabulary and establishing order on the frontiers of
S1107     Liberia.  Fifty blacks were reported lynched in 1916.
S11051917 U.S. Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v. Warley) struck down
S1105     Lousiville, Ky., ordiance which required blacks and whites
S1105     to live in separate residential areas.
S11111918 Armistice signed, ending World War I.  Official records lis
S1111     ted 370,000 black soldiers and 1400 black commissioned of
S1111     ficers.  A little more than half of these soldiers served
S1111     in the European Theater.  Three black regiments the 369th,
S1111     371st and 372nd received the Croix de Guerre for valor.
S1111     The 369th was the first American unit to reach the Rhine.
S1111     Various individual blacks were decorated for bravery.  The
S1111     first soldiers in the American army to be decorated for
S1111     bravery in France were Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts of
S1111     the 369th Infantry Regiment.  Blacks were angered by a ser
S1111     ies of racial incidents.
S11211918 Henry B. Delany elected suffragan bishop of the Protestant
S1112     Episcopal diocese of North Carolina.
S11021920 Warren G. Harding elected president.
S11031920 Emperor Jones opened at the Provincetown Theater with Char
S1103     les Gilpin in the title role.
S11061920 James Weldon Johnson became the first black executive secre
S1106     tary of the NAACP.  Fifty-three blacks reported lynched in
S1106     1920.  Spingarn Medal awarded to W.E.B. Du Bois for "the
S1106     founding and calling of the Pan African Congress."
S11201922 Louisiana governor conferred with president on KKK violence
S1120     in his state.  Fifty-one blacks were reported lynched in
S1120     1922.  Spingarn Medal awarded to Mary B.Talbert, former pre
S1120     sident of the National Association of Colored Women, for
S1120     service to black women and for restoration of the Frederick
S1120     Douglas home.
S01171923 First session of Third Pan-African Congress convened in Lon
S0117     don.  Second session was held in Lisbon.  Twenty-nine blacks
S0117     were reported lynched in 1923.  Spingarn Medal awarded to
S0117     George Washington Carver, head of the department of resea
S0117     rch, Tuskegee Institute, for his pioneering work in agricul
S0117     tural chemistry.
S11111925 Louis Armstrong recorded the first of Hot Five and Hot Seven
S1111     recordings that influenced the direction of jazz.  Xavier
S1111     University established.  Spingarn Medal awarded to James
S1111     Weldon Johnson, former U.S. consul in Venezuela and Nicara
S1111     gua and NAACP executive secretary, for  his work as an auth
S1111     or, diplomat and leader.
S11011927 Death of Florence Mills (32), dancer and singer, New York
S1101     City.
S11061928 Oscar DePriest elected to Seventy-first Congress from Illi
S1106     nois' First Congressional District (Chicago).  He was the
S1106     first congressman form the North and the first black in
S1106     Congress since the departure of George H. WHite in 1901.
S1106     Atlanta Daily World founded by W.A. Scott Jr. The newspaper
S1106     became a daily in 1933.  Spingarn Medal presented to Charles
S1106     W. Chestnutt, the first black to receive widespread critical
S1106     recognition as a novelist.  He was cited for his "pioneer
S1106     work as a literary artist depicting the life and struggle
S1106     of Americans of Negro descent."
S11081932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected president.  Spingarn Medal
S1108     awarded to Robert R. Moton, president of Tuskegee Institute,
S1108     for his "thoughtful leadership in conservative opinion and
S1108     action."
S11071934 Arthur L. Mitchell defeated Oscar DePriest in a Chicago ele
S1107     ction and became the first black Democratic congressman.
S11051935 Maryland Court of Appeals ordered the University of Maryland
S1105     to admit Donald Murray.
S11081938 First black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Phila
S1108     delphia, elected to Pennsylvania legislature.
S11011942 John H. Johnson published first issue of Negro Digest.
S11031942 William L. Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago.  Black
S1103     and white advocates of direct, nonviolent action organizing
S1103     the Sleeping Car Porters under the Brotherhood of Sleeping
S1103     Car Porters and securing recognition for them; and because
S1103     of his fearless, determined mobilization of mass opinion
S1103     that resulted in... Executive Order No. 8802, which banned
S1103     racial discrimination in defense industries and government
S1103     work."
S11011945 First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H. Johnson.
S1101     The first issue sold 25,000 copies.
S11031945 Irving C. Mollison, a Chicago Republican, sworn in as U.S.
S1103     Customs Court judge in New York City.  Spingarn Medal pre
S1103     sented to Paul Robeson "for his outstanding achievement in
S1103     the theatre, on the concert stage, and in the general field
S1103     of racial welfare."
S11011946 Dr. Charles S. Johnson became the first black president of
S1101     Fisk University.
S11251949 Death of dancer Luther ("Bill") Robinson (71).  Ralph J.
S1125     Bunche received the Spingarn Medal for his contributions
S1125     to the Myrdal study and his achievements as UN mediator of
S1125     the Palestine conflict.  CORE chapter pressed sit-in camp
S1125     aign designed to end segregation in downtown facilities in
S1125     St. Louis.
S11011951 Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson, publisher of Ebony
S1101     magazine.
S11021954 Charles C. Diggs Jr. of Detroit elected Michigan's first
S1102     black congressman.  Spingarn Medal presented to Dr. Theodore
S1102     K. Lawles for his research on skin-relate diseases.
S11071955 Supreme Court in Baltimore case banned segregation in pub
S1107     lic recreational facilities.
S11251955 Interstate Commerce Commission banned segregation in buses
S1125     and waiting rooms involved in interstate travel.
S11051956 Death of pianist Art Tatum (46), Los Angeles.
S11131956 Supreme Court upheld lower court decision which banned se
S1113     gregation on city buses in Mongomery, Alabama.  Federal in
S1113     junctions prohibiting segregation on the buses were served
S1113     on city, state and bus company officials, December 20.  At
S1113     two mass meetings Montgomery blacks called off year-long
S1113     bus boycott.  Buses were integrated on December 21.
S11271957 Federal troops left Little Rock.  Dorothy Height, YMCA offi
S1127     cial, elected president of the National Council of Negro
S1127     Women.
S11081960 John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon in the presidential
S1108     election.  Otis M. Smith elected auditor general of Michi
S1108     gan and became the first black chosen in a statewide elec
S1108     tion since the Reconstruction period.
S11101960 Andrew Hatcher named associate press secretary to President
S1110     -elect Kennedy.
S11141960 U.S. marshals and parents escorted four black girls to two
S1114     New Orleans schools.
S11281960 Death of Richard Wright (52), Paris, France.
S11291961 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Mc
S1129     Comb, Miss., November 29-December 2.
S11061962 Edward W. Brooke elected attorney general of Massachusetts.
S1106     Gerald Lamb elected treasurer of Connecticut.  Otis M. Smith
S1106     elected to a full term on the Michigan Supreme Court.  Five
S1106     blacks, including one newcomer, were elected to the House
S1106     of Representatives.  The newcomer, Augustus F. Hawkins, was
S1106     elected from Los Angeles and became the first black congres
S1106     sman from the West.
S11201962 President Kennedy issued executive order barring racial dis
S1120     crimination in federally financed housing.  Robert C. Wea
S1120     ver, economist and government officials, awarded Spingarn
S1120     Medal for his leadership in the movement for open housing.
S11221963 John Fitzgeralf Kennedy (46), thirty-fifth president of the
S1122     United States, assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
S11031964 John Conyers Jr. elected to House of Representatives from
S1103     Detroit.
S11081966 Edward W. Brooke (Republican, Massachusetts) elected to U.S.
S1108     Senate and became the first black senator since the Recon
S1108     struction era and the first black senator elected by popular
S1108     vote.  Racial violence was reported in forty-three cities
S1108     in 1966, with eleven killed, more than four hundred injured
S1108     and three thousand arrested.  John H. Johnson, publisher of
S1108     Ebony and Jet magazines, awarded Spingarn Medal "for his
S1108     productive imagination...in the perilous field of publish
S1108     ing" and "for his contributions to the enhancement of the
S1108     Negro's self-image through his publications."
S11071967 Carl B. Stokes elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, and Rich
S1107     ard G. Hatcher elected mayor of Gary, Indiana. Stokes was
S1107     sworn in on November 13, and became the first black to serve
S1107     as mayor of a major American city.  A report of the Senate
S1107     Permanent Investigating Committee said there were seventy-
S1107     five major riots in 1967, compared with twenty-one major ri
S1107     ots in 1966.  The committe reported that eight-three persons
S1107     were killed in 1967 riots, compared with eleven in 1966 and
S1107     thirty-six in 1965.
S11071967 Spingarn Medal presented to Edward W. Brooke for his public
S1107     service as the first black U.S. senator since Reconstruc
S1107     tion.
S11051968 A record nuber of black congressmen and the first black wo
S1105     man representative were elected to Congress.  The nine black
S1105     congressmen and Sen. Edward W. Brooke topped the previous
S1105     high of eight in the Forty-fourth Congress of 1875-77.  The
S1105     first black woman representative, Shirley Chisholm of the
S1105     Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, defeated former CORE
S1105     director James Farmer, in New York's Twelfth Congresssional
S1105     critics and reelected Adam Clayton Powell Jr. In addition to
S1105     Powell, the following incumbents were reelected:  William L.
S1105     Dawson (Ill.), Charles C. Diggs (Mich.), Augustus Hawkins
S1105     (Cali.), Robert N.C. Nix (Pa.) and John Conyers (Mich.) Ele
S1105     cted to Congress for the first ime were Mrs. Chisholm, Louis
S1105     Stokes (Ohio) and William L. Clay (Mo.).
S11031970 Twelve blacks elected to the Ninety-second Congress, includ
S1103     ing five new congressmen:  Ralph H. Metcalfe (Ill.), George
S1103     Collins (Ill.), Charles Rangel (N.Y.), Ronald Dellums (Ca
S1103     lif.), and Parren Mitchell (Md.).
S11031970 Wislon Riles elected superintendent of Public instruction
S1103     in California.  Richard Austin elected secretary of state
S1103     in Michigan.  November 5, National Guard mobilized in Hen
S1103     derson, N.C., riots.
S11071970 Race riots, Daytona Beach, Florida.
S11091970 Death of William L. Dawson (84), Democratic congressman and
S1109     party leader, in Chicago.
S11261970 Death of B.O. Davis Sr. (93), first black general, in Chi
S1126     cago.  Charles Gordone awarded Pulitzer Prize for his play,
S1126     No Place To Go.  Painter Jacob Lawrence awarded Spingarn
S1126     Medal "in tribute to the compelling power of his work which
S1126     has opened to the world...a window on the Negro's condition
S1126     in the United States"  and "in salute to his unswerving com
S1126     mitment" to the black struggle.
S11241971 Prison rebellion, Rahway State Prison, New Jersey.
S11171972 President Nixon reelected, carrying forty-nine of the fifty
S1117     states, despite massive black vote for Sen. McGovern.  Six
S1117     teen blacks were elected to Congress.  Andrew Young of At
S1117     lanta was the first black elected to Congress from the Deep
S1117     South since the Reconstruction era.  Also elected for the
S1117     first time were Barbara Jordan (Tex.) and Yvonne Brathwaite
S1117     Burke (Calif.).  Republican Senator Edward W. Brooke of Mas
S1117     sachusetts was overwhelmingly endorsed for a second term.
S11161972 National Guard mobilized after officers killed two students
S1116     during Southern University demonstrations.
S11061973 Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit.  Marcus A. Foster,
S1106     superintendent of schools in Oakland, Calif., killed in am
S1106     bush after Board of Education meeting.  Two members of the
S1106     Symbionese Liberation Army, a West Coast terrorist group,
S1106     were convicted of the slaying, but the conviction of one of
S1106     the men was overturned on a legal technicality.  Spingarn
S1106     Medal presented to Wilson C. Riles, superintendent of pub
S1106     lic instruction, California, "in recognition of the stature
S1106     he has attained as a national leader in the field of educa
S1106     tion."
S11051974 State Sen. Mervyn M. Dymally elected lieutenant governor of
S1105     California.  State Sen. Georgia L. Brown elected lieutenant
S1105     governor of Colorado.
S11051974 Walter E. Washington, became the first elected mayor of Wash
S1105     ington, D.C., in the twentieth century.  Harold Ford of Mem
S1105     phis elected to House of Representatives.  Spingarn Medal
S1105     awarded Damon J. Keith "in tribute to his steadfast defense
S1105     of constitutional principles as revealed in a series of mem
S1105     orable decisions he handed down as a United States District
S1105     Court judge."
S11111975 Angola proclaimed independent.
S11021976 Jimmy Carter, former governor of Georgia, elected president
S1102     with strong support from black voters.  Seventeen black con
S1102     gressmen reelected.
S11061976 Benjamin Hooks, Federal Communications Commission member,
S1106     named to succeed Roy Wilkins as executive director of the
S1106     NAACP.
S11121977 Ernest N. Morial elected mayor of New Orleans.  Spingarn
S1112     Medal awarded to Alexander P. Haley "for his unsurpassed
S1112     effective in portraying the legendary story of an American
S1112     of African descent."
S11041978 William Howard Jr., 32, elected president of the National
S1104     Council of Churches.
S11071978 Five newcommers elected to Congress:  William Gray III (Pa.)
S1107     Bennett Stewart (III.), Melvin Evans (R., Virgin Islands),
S1107     Julian Dixon (Calif.) and George Leland (Tex.).
S11071978 Lt. Gov. Mervyn Dymally defeated in California election.
S1107     Senator Edward W. Brooke defeated in Massachusetts election.
S11181978 More than nine hundred persons, most of them black Americans,
S1118     died in mass murder and suicide pact in Jonestown, Guyana.
S1118     Spingarn Medal presented to Ambassador Andrew J. Young "in
S1118     recognition of the deftness with which he has handled rela
S1118     tions between this nation and other countries"  and "for
S1118     his major role in raising the consciousness of American cit
S1118     izens to the significance in world affairs of the massive
S1118     African continent."
S11031979 Klansmen fired on an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, N.C.,
S1103     and killed five persons.
S11151979 Study compiled by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
S1115     indicated a sharp rise in Ku Klux Klan activity.  Study said
S1115     Klan membership in 22 states increased from 8,000 to 10,000
S1115     in the twenty-month period ending in November, 1979, and
S1115     that the number of sympathizers grew from 30,000 to 100,000.
S11151979 Spingarn Medal awarded to Rosa L. Parks, who was the Cata
S1115     lyst in the Mongomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56.  Nobel Prize
S1115     in economics awarded to Professor Arthur Lewis of Princeton.
S1115     He was the first black cited in a category other than peace.
S11031981 Coleman Young reelected mayor of Detroit.  Thurman L. Milner
S1103     elected mayor of Hartford, Connecticut.  James Chase elected
S1103     mayor of Spokane, Washington.
S11301981 Four newcomers elected to Congress:  Mervyn Dymally (Calif.),
S1130     Augustus Savage (ILL.), Harold Washington (Ill.) and George
S1130     W. Crockett Jr. (Mich.).  Spingarn Medal awarded to Coleman
S1130     A. Young "in recognition of his singular accomplishments as
S1130     mayor of the City of Detroit."