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* Today in Black History - October 13 *
1831 - Jo Anderson, a slave, helps invent the grain harvester reaper.
1876 - Meharry Medical College, formally opens at Central Tennessee
College.
1902 - Arna Bontemps is born in Alexandria, Louisiana. He will become
a prolific poet, librarian, and author of historical and
juvenile fiction. Among his best-known works will be "God
Sends Sunday" and "Black Thunder", the juvenile books "We Have
Tomorrow" and "The Story of the Negro", and "American Negro
Poetry", which he edited.
1906 - J. Saunders Redding is born in Wilmington, Delaware. He will
become a literary and social critic and author of non-fiction
works on the African American experience, such as "To Make a
Poet Black", "On Being Negro in America", and "Cavalcade:
Negro American Writing from 1760 to the Present."
1925 - Garland Anderson's "Appearances" opens at the Frolic Theatre
on Broadway. It is the first full-length Broadway play by an
African American.
1979 - Clarence Muse dies in Perris, California at the age of 90. He
was a pioneer film and stage actor who appeared in 219 films.
His first film was the second talking movie ever made.
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