November 17th... This day in Black History... Our History... WORLD HISTORY 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. 1911 - Fraternity,Omega Psi Phi, founded on the campus of Howard University. 1972 - President Nixon reelected, carrying forty-nine of the fifty states, despite massive Black vote for Sen. McGovern. 1972 - Barbara Jordan of Houston and Andrew Young of Atlanta, become the first African Americans from the south elected to Congress since Reconstruction. 1980 - WHMM-TV in Washington, DC becomes the first African American broadcasting television station Elegba Folklore Society
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