* Today in Black History - August 30 *
1800 - Jack Bowler and Coachman Gabriel Prosser's plans for a slave
revolt in Richmond, Virginia, are betrayed by a pair of house
slaves attempting to save their master. Prosser's plan, which
involved over 1,100 slaves, would have resulted in the death
of all slave-owning whites, but would have spared Quakers,
Frenchmen, elderly women, and children.
1838 - The first African American magazine "Mirror of Freedom", begins
publication in New York City by abolitionist David Ruggles.
1843 - The Liberty Party has the first African American participation
in a national political convention. Samuel R. Ward leads the
convention in prayer -- Henry Highland Garnet, a twenty-seven-
year-old Presbyterian pastor who calls for a slave revolt and
a general slave strike. Amos G. Beman of New Haven, Connecticut
is elected president of the convention.
1856 - Wilberforce University is established in Xenia, Ohio under the
auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1863, the
university was transferred to the African Methodist Episcopal
(AME) Church.
1861 - General John C. Fremont issues an order confiscating the property
of Confederates and emancipating their slaves. The order causes
wide-spread protest and is revoked by President Lincoln.
1892 - S. R. Scottron patents a curtain rod.
1901 - Roy Wilkins is born in St. Louis, Missouri. He will become a civil
rights leader, assistant executive secretary of the NAACP under
Walter White and editor of the Crisis Magazine for 15 years. He
will become Executive Secretary of the NAACP in 1955, a post he
will hold for 22 years. During his tenure, he will be a champion
of civil rights committed to using constitutional arguments to help
obtain full citizenship rights for all African Americans.
1931 - Carrie Saxon Perry is born in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1987, she
will be elected mayor of Hartford, becoming the first African
American mayor of a major eastern United States city.
1953 - Robert Parish is born. He will become a professional basketball
player and will star as a center for the Boston Celtics.
1956 - A white mob prevents the enrollment of blacks at Mansfield High
School in Texas.
1961 - James Benton Parsons is confirmed as the first African American
judge of a United States District Court in the continental United
States (Northern Illinois). He had been appointed by President
John F. Kennedy on April 18, 1961.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American justice
on the U.S. Supreme Court. He had been appointed by President
Lyndon Johnson on June 13, 1967.
1969 - Racially motivated civil disturbances occur in Fort Lauderdale,
Florida.
1983 - Lt. Colonel Guion S. Bluford is the first African American in space
when he serves as a mission specialist on the Challenger space
shuttle. The space shuttle, launched from Kennedy Space Center in
Florida, stayed in orbit almost six days. This was the Challenger's
third flight into space.
1987 - Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 meters in world record time of 9.83
seconds.
1990 - Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey, Jr. become the first father & son to play
on the same professional sports team (Seattle Mariners). Both
single in the first inning.
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