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* Today in Black History - September 14 *
1874 - White Democrats seize the statehouse in a Louisiana coup d'etat.
President Grant orders the revolutionaries to disperse, and the
rebellion collapses. Twenty-seven persons (sixteen whites and
eleven Blacks) are killed in battles between the Democrats and
Republicans.
1891 - John Adams Hyman joins the ancestors in Washington, DC. He was
the first African American congressman from the state of North
Carolina.
1921 - Constance Baker Motley is born in New Haven, Connecticut. She
will achieve many distinctions in her career, including being
the only woman elected to the New York Senate in 1964, the
only woman Manhattan borough president, and the first African
American woman to be named as a federal court judge in 1966.
She will later serve as chief judge of the Southern District
of New York.
1940 - African Americans are allowed to enter all branches of the
United States Military Service, when President Franklin D.
Roosevelt signs the Selective Service Act.
1964 - Leontyne Price and A. Philip Randolph are among the recipients
of the Medal of Freedom awarded by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1970 - One African American is killed and two whites are injured in
shoot-out between activists and police officers in a New
Orleans housing project.
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