Spingarn Medal awarded to Col. Charles Young, U.S. Army, for organizing the Liberian constabulary and establishing order on the frontiers of Liberia.

Messman Dorie Miller downs three Japanese planes in the attack on Pearl Harbor

Five newcomers elected to Congress: William Gray III (Pa.) Bennett Stewart (III.), Melvin Evans (R., Virgin Islands), Julian Dixon (Calif.) and George Leland (Tex.).

President Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden claimed the presidential election. Republicans and Democrats claimed elections in Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida.

When Jordan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972 she became the first African-American woman to represent a previously Confederate state in Congress.

Supreme Court in Baltimore case banned segregation in public recreational facilities.

Edward A. Bouchet received the Ph.D. degree in physics at Yale University and became the first Black to receive a doctorate at an American University.

Carl B. Stokes elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, and Richard G. Hatcher elected mayor of Gary, Indiana. Stokes was sworn in on November 13, and became the first Black to serve as mayor of a major American city.

L Douglas Wilder was elected governor of Virgina, becoming the first Black Governor in the US since

Reconstruction, 1989

Thenjiwe Mtintso , (born November 7, 1950, Soweto, South Africa), South African antiapartheid activist and journalist who occupied various leadership positions within the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) and later served in multiracial governments in South Africa from 1994.

Mtintso was the daughter of Hanna Mtintso, a domestic worker, and Gana Makabeni, a labour leader and ANC activist. She left secondary school to help support her family, completing her education by correspondence courses while working in factories. In 1972 she entered the University of Fort Hare on a scholarship and joined the South African Students’ Organisation. After being expelled for political activities, she moved to King Williams Town and worked as a political organizer with the Black Consciousness movement leaders Steve Biko and Mamphela Ramphele. She was also a reporter for the Daily Dispatch, a liberal newspaper edited by the white antiapartheid campaigner Donald Woods. During the 1970s she was subjected to banning, detentions, solitary confinement, and severe torture by the South African police. After Biko was murdered while in police custody, she went into exile in 1978.

In Lesotho Mtintso joined the Umkhonto we Sizwe (Zulu and Xhosa: “Spear of the Nation”), the armed wing of the ANC, and the SACP. After receiving military training, including in Cuba, she worked in Lesotho with the Regional Political-Military Council, which coordinated the ANC’s political and military activities in that country, and later served as head of the Regional Political-Military Council in Botswana (1986–89) and as the ANC’s first chief representative to Uganda (1989–91).

In 1991 Mtintso was elected to the SACP Central Committee and Political Bureau. Following the country’s transition to a multiracial democracy in 1994, she was elected as a member of the South African Parliament. However, she turned down an offer of a ministry and chose not to contest her seat again. She was elected to the ANC National

On Nov. 7 1963, Elston Howard, catcher for the New York Yankees became the first African American to win the American leagues Most Valuable Player (MVP) award.

Knights and Ladies of St. Peter Claver organized in Mobile, Alabama, by four Posephite priests and three Catholic laymen.

Terryinca “Terri” Sewell, the current U.S. Representative for Alabama’s 7th district, was born January 1, 1965 in Huntsville, Alabama to Andrew and Nancy Sewell. Sewell grew up in Selma, Alabama where both of her parents were employed by the local school district. Her father, Andrew, was a high school math teacher and football coach, and her mother, Nancy, a librarian. Nancy Gardner Sewell was also the first black woman elected to the Selma city council.

Terri Sewell, who graduated from Selma High School in 1983, was the first black valedictorian in the school’s history.  She was also the first graduate of Selma High School to attend an Ivy League school.  After graduation Sewell attended Princeton University where she studied political science and graduated cum laude in 1986. While at Princeton Sewell wrote an award winning thesis titled “Black Women in Politics: Our Time Has Come,” for which she interviewed former Rep. Shirley Chisholm, the first African American congresswoman. Upon graduation Sewell was awarded the Marshall/Commonwealth Scholarship to study political science at Oxford University in England. Sewell received her Master’s degree from Oxford in 1988 with first-class honors. In 1992 Sewell graduated from the Harvard Law School. During her time at Harvard Sewell worked as the editor of the Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review.

After her graduation from Harvard Law School, Sewell returned to Alabama to work as a judicial law clerk for Judge U.W.  Clemon  of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.  Shortly after, Sewell began her legal career working as a securities lawyer at the firm of Davis, Polk and Wardwell in New York City. In 2004 Sewell again returned to Alabama where she became a partner at the law offices of Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C. in Birmingham.  Taking that post made her at the time the only black finance lawyer in Alabama. During her time with Maynard and Cooper Sewell focused her efforts on helping historically black colleges restructure their debt.

On

Slave revolt on the Creole, which was en route to New Orleans, from Hampton, Virginia. Rebels overpowered crew and sailed ship to the Bahamas, where they were granted asylum and freedom.

Lt. Gov. Mervyn Dymally defeated in California election. Senator Edward W. Brooke defeated in Massachusetts election.

Woodrow Wilson reelected president.

Gibbs died November 7, 2000, on his 84th birthday.

Meharry Medical College established at Central Tennessee College.

Spingarn Medal presented to Edward W. Brooke for his public service as the first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction.

David Dinkins was elected first Black mayor of New York City, 1989

Rock legend Jimi Hendrix was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Voices of the Civil War Episode 7: The Day of the Big Gun Shoot

In episode 7, The Day of the Big Gun Shoot, we visit the Sea Islands of South Carolina, where cotton production flourished during slavery. As the Civil War unfolds, the islands become the site of the Battle of Port Royal on November 7, 1861. Armies attack, slave masters flee, and cotton and slaves remain, once again, left with the dust from where the cannon fire settles. The battle, originally a conflict over Southern seaports, becomes a training ground for future reconstruction and what to do with those enslaved.

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Arthur L. Mitchell defeated Oscar DePriest in a Chicago election and became the first Black Democratic congressman.

Fifty Blacks were reported lynched in 1916.

A report of the Senate Permanent Investigating Committee said there were seventy-five major riots in 1967, compared with twenty-one major riots in 1966. The committee reported that eight-three persons were killed in 1967 riots, compared with eleven in 1966 and thirty-six in 1965.

Race riots, Daytona Beach, Florida.

Edward Bannister, the first Black artist to win wide critical acclaim, awarded prize at Philadelphia Centennial Exposition for his work, Under the Oak.

Gibbs was born in Jacksonville, Florida on November 7, 1916.

In the article below Hilary Burrage, Executive Chair of the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation, a United Kingdom (UK)-based non-profit organisation, describes the composer and how she came to regard and preserve his work and legacy.

It has taken three times the duration of his own lifetime for the reputation of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Britain’s greatest black classical composer, to begin to make an impact on our contemporary world.  At the time of his tragically early death in 1912, aged 37 from a chest infection, Coleridge-Taylor was a nationally feted musical figure.  His Hiawatha Trilogy of staged opera-cantatas based on the poem by Longfellow were massive commercial successes even though he gained almost nothing from them financially.  

After Coleridge-Taylor’s death, the works fell slowly from collective consciousness and favour.  Until the mid-1930s annual fortnight performances of Hiawatha at the Royal Albert Hall were a highlight of London’s cultural scene.  By the 1960s however, when as a (white) schoolgirl in Birmingham, UK, I was involved in a concert production of the cantata, my friends and I were totally unaware that the composer was a person of mixed race.

Nor did we know of the personal challenges Coleridge-Taylor had faced.  He was born illegitimate in 1875, in Holborn, a (then) harshly impoverished area of central London, to Daniel Peter Hughes Taylor (c1848-1904), a London-trained surgeon who returned home to Sierra Leone and probably never knew of Samuel’s existence, and eighteen-years-old Alice Hare Martin (1856-1953), daughter of Emily Ann Martin.

A year or two after Samuel’s birth, demolition of their squalid Holborn home saw Alice removed to Croydon just south of London. There, she continued to live with Benjamin Holmans (a farrier), his wife Sarah and their children, a ‘housekeeper,’ perhaps Emily Martin, and, later, with her (railway worker) husband George Evans and subsequent offspring. Conjecture suggests Benjamin may have been Samuel’s maternal grandfather since various members of

Lord Dunmore, deposed royal governor of Virginia, issued proclamation which promised freedom to male slaves who joined the British army.