Today in OUR story - November 23 * 1867 - The Louisiana constitutional convention (forty-nine white delegates and forty-nine African American delegates) meets in Mechanics Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana. 1897 - J.L. Love receives a patent for the pencil sharpener. 1897 - Andrew J. Beard receives a patent for the jerry coupler, still is use today to connect railroad cars. 1905 - Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physician, is named minister to Haiti. He will be the last African American minister to Haiti during this period in history. 1934 - Imitation of Life premieres in New York City. Starring Claudette Colbert, Louise Beavers, and Fredi Washington, it is the story of a white woman and an African American woman who build a pancake business while the latters daughter makes a desperate attempt to pass for white. 1944 - Eugene Washington is born in LaPorte, Texas. He will become a professional football player, playing wide receiver. He will play for the Minnesota Vikings (1967–1972) and the Denver Broncos (1973–1974). He will wear #84 for Minnesota and Denver. He will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2011. 1965 - Mike Garrett, a University of Southern California running back with 4,876 total yards and 3,221 yards rushing, is announced as the Downtown Athletic Clubs Heisman Trophy winner of 1965. He is the University of Southern Californias first Heisman Trophy winner. He will go on to play eight years in the pros, first with the Kansas City Chiefs and later with the San Diego Chargers, and be elected to the National Football Hall of Fame in 1985. 1980 - One thousand persons from twenty five states gather in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and form the National Black Independent Party. 1988 - Al Raby, the civil rights leader who convinced Martin Luther King, Jr. to bring his movement to Chicago, joins the ancestors succumbing to a heart attack. 1988 - South African President Pieter Botha gives a reprieve to the Sharpeville Six. 1991 - Evander Holyfield retains the heavyweight boxing title, by KO over Bert Cooper in the seventh round.
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