****** HISTORY ALERT 2 ****** November 18, 1900 Howard Thurman, theologian and first black to hold a full time teaching position at Boston University, is born. November 18, 1977 Robert Edward Chambliss, a former KKK member is convicted of first degree murder in connection with the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., that killed four African teenage women. November 18, 1980 Wally Famous Amoss signature panama hat and embroidered shirt are donated to the National Museum of American Historys Business Americana collection. It is the first memorabilia added to the collection by An African American entrepreneur and recognizes the achievement of Amos who built his company from a mom and pop enterprise to a $ 250 million cookie manufacturing business. November 18, 1993 Black and white leaders in South Africa approved the new democracy constitution that gave blacks the vote and ended white minority rule. November 17, 1980 WHMM-TV in Washington, DC becomes the first African American broadcasting television station November 17, 1972 Sixteen Blacks were elected to Congress. Andrew Young of Atlanta was the first Black elected to Congress from the Deep South since the Reconstruction era. Also elected for the first time were Barbara Jordan (Tex.) and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (Calif.). Republican Senator Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts was overwhelmingly endorsed for a second term. November 17, 1842 Capture of George Latimer in Boston led to first of the fugitive slave cases which embittered North and South. Boston abolitionists raised money to purchase Latimer from his slaveholder.
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