*                   Today in Black History - October 7                *

1821 - William Still is born in Burlington County, New Jersey.  He will
        become an abolitionist and will be involved in the anti-slavery
        movement working for the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition
        of Slavery.  After the Civil War, he will chronicle the personal
        accounts of former runaway slaves, who had traveled on the
        Underground Railroad.  His publication, "Underground Railroad,"
        published in 1872, will provide a revealing look into the
        activities of the flight of fugitive slaves.  Still will be a
        civil rights activist, researcher and writer, until he joins
        the ancestors in 1902.

1856 - Moses Fleetwood Walker is born in Steubenville, Ohio.  He will
        become a baseball player when he and his brother Welday join the
        first baseball team at Oberlin College.  He will become a
        professional baseball player after leaving Oberlin when he joins
        the Toledo Blue Stockings of the Northwestern League in 1883.
        When he plays his first game for the Blue Stockings in the
        American Association the next year, he will become the first
        African American to play in the major leagues. After the 1884
        season, no other African Americans will play in the major leagues
        until Jackie Robinson in 1947.

1873 - Henry E. Hayne, secretary of state, is accepted as a student at
        the University of South Carolina.  Scores of African-Americans
        will attend the university in 1874 and 1875.

1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba.

1888 - Sargent C. Johnson is born in Boston, Massachusetts.  He will be
        a pioneering artist of the Harlem Renaissance, known for his
        wood, cast stone, and ceramic sculptures.  Among his most famous
        works will be "Forever Free" and "Mask.  "

1889 - Clarence Muse is born in Baltimore, Maryland.  He will become a
        pioneer film and stage actor.  He will appear in the second
        talking movie ever made and go on to appear in a total of 219
        films.  His career will span over 60 years.

1891 - Archibald John Motley, Jr. is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
        He will become one of the more renowned painters of the 1920's
        and 1930's.

1897 - Elijah Poole is born in Sandersville, Georgia.  He will become
        better known as The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, one of the most
        influential leaders in the Nation of Islam.  Poole will be
        trained by Master Wallace Fard Muhammad, founder of the Nation
        of Islam, and will lead the organization to become the largest
        African American movement since Garveyism until his death on
        February 25, 1975.

1931 - Desmond Mpilo Tutu is born in Klerksdorp, South Africa.  He will
        become the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1984, and Archbishop of
        the Anglican Church (First Anglican bishop of African descent)
        of Johannesburg, South Africa.

1934 - LeRoi Jones is born in Newark, New Jersey.  He will be better
        known as Amiri Baraka, influential playwright, author, and
        critic of the African American experience.

1954 - Marian Anderson becomes the first African American singer hired
        by the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York.

1981 - Egypt's parliament names Vice President Hosni Mubarak to succeed
        the assassinated Anwar Sadat.

1984 - Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader.

1985 - Lynette Woodward, is chosen as the first woman to play with the
        Harlem Globetrotters.

1989 - Ricky Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games).

1993 - Writer, Toni Morrison, is awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.

1995 - Coach Eddie Robinson, of Grambling State University, wins his
        400th game and sets a NCAA record that clearly establishes him
        as a legend.

1997 - MCA Records offers, for sale, fifteen previously unreleased tracks
        of legendary guitarist, Jimi Hendrix.  Hendrix joined the ancestors
        in 1970.

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