* Today in Black History - October 9 *
1823 - Mary Ann Shadd (later Cary) is born free in Wilmington, Delaware, the
eldest of thirteen children. She will become the publisher of
Canada's first anti-slavery newspaper, "The Provincial Freeman",
devoted to displaced African Americans living in Canada. This also
makes her the first woman in North America to publish and edit a
newspaper. She will then become a teacher, establishing or teaching
in schools for African Americans in Wilmington, Delaware, West Chester,
Pennsylvania, New York, Morristown, New Jersey, and Canada. She will
also be the first woman to speak at a national Negro convention. In
1869, she will embark on her second career, becoming the first woman
to enter Howard University's law school. She will become the first
African American woman to obtain a law degree and among the first
women in the United States to do so. She will join the ancestors in
1893.
1906 - Leopold Senghor is born in Joal, Senegal, French West Africa (now in
Senegal). He will become a poet and president of Senegal from 1960
to 1980. Senghor will try to modernize Senegal's agriculture,
instill a sense of enlightened citizenship, combat corruption and
inefficiency, forge closer ties with his African neighbors, and
continue cooperation with the French. He will advocate an African
socialism based on African realities, free of both atheism and
excessive materialism. He will seek an open, democratic, humanistic
socialism that shunned such slogans as "dictatorship of the
proletariat." A vigorous spokesman for the Third World, he will
protest unfair terms of trade that work to the disadvantage of the
agricultural nations. In 1984, Senghor will be inducted into the
French Academy, becoming the first black member in that body's
history.
1929 - Ernest "Dutch" Morial is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He will
become the first African American mayor of New Orleans in 1978 and
be re-elected in 1982.
1940 - The White House releases a statement which says that government
"policy is not to intermingle colored and white enlisted personnel
in the same regimental organizations."
1959 - Mike Singletary is born in Houston, Texas. He will become a second-
round draft pick for the Chicago Bears in 1981. He will be the
first or second leading tackler for each of his eleven seasons.
Over his career he will amass 1488 tackles (885 solo), 51 passes
defended, 13 fumble recoveries, and 7 interceptions. He will be an
All-NFC selection nine straight years from 1983-1991, will be
selected to ten consecutive Pro Bowls, and Defensive Player of the
Year in 1985 and 1988. He will be enshrined in the Football Hall of
Fame in 1998.
1961 - Tanganyika becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
1962 - Uganda gains its independence from Great Britain.
1963 - Uganda becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth.
1989 - The first NFL game with a team coached by an African American, Art
Shell, takes place as his Los Angeles Raiders beat the New York Jets
14-7 on Monday Night Football.
1999 - Milt Jackson, a jazz vibraphonist who made the instrument sing
like the human voice as a longtime member of the Modern Jazz
Quartet, joins the ancestors at the age of 76. He succumbed to
liver cancer in a Manhattan hospital.
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