This Day in American HISTORY !!!!!!!! Sunday November 17, - TopicsExpress



          

This Day in American HISTORY !!!!!!!! Sunday November 17, 2013 1723 - Crispus Attucks ~ (merchant and patriot) is born in Massachusetts. 1989 - Gloria Naylor ~ (writer) wins the Lillian Smith Award for Mama Day, her novel, which centers on cultural conflict in an all-Black sea island community off the coast of South Carolina. 1911 - Omega Psi Phi ~ (fraternity) founded on the campus of Howard University. Edgar A. Love, Oscar J. Cooper, and Frank Coleman were its founding members. 1978 - FBI Agents Charles D. Brennan and George C. Moore reportedly testified, that FBI surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was based solely on J. Edgar Hoovers hatred for him. 1980 - Twelve Klansmen, who fired on and killed five people in a 1979 anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, NC, were charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 14:55:36 +0000

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