*                   Today in Black History - September 2              *

1766 - Abolitionist, inventor, and entrepreneur, James Forten is born in
        Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1833 - Oberlin College, one of the first colleges to admit African
Americans,
        is founded in Oberlin, Ohio.

1864 - In series of battles around Chaffin's Farm in the suburbs of
Richmond,
        Virginia, African American troops capture entrenchments at New Market
        Heights, make a gallant but unsuccessful assault on Fort Gilmer and
        help repulse a Confederate counterattack on Fort Harrison.  The
        Thirty-Ninth U.S. Colored Troops will win a Congressional Medal of
        Honor in the engagements.

1902 - "In Dahomey" premieres at the Old Globe Theater in Boston,
        Massachusetts.  With music by Will Marion Cook and lyrics by poet
        Paul Laurence Dunbar, it is the most successful musical of its day.

1911 - Romare Bearden is born in Charlotte, North Carolina.  His family will
        move to the village of Harlem in New York City in 1914.  He will
        call New York his home for the rest of his life.  A student at
        New York University,  the American Artists School, Columbia
        University, and the Sorbonne, Bearden's depiction of the rituals and
        social customs of African American life will be imbued with an
        eloquence and power that will earn him accolades as one of the
        finest artists of the 20th century and a master of collage.  Among
        his honors will be election to the American Academy of Arts and
        Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and receiving
        the President's National Medal of Arts in 1987. He will join the
        ancestors in 1988.

1928 - Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver is born in Norwalk, Connecticut.
He
        will become a jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer who will
        initially lead the Jazz Messengers with drummer Art Blakey before
        forming his own band in 1956.  A pioneer of the hard bop style, he
        will attract to his band the talents of Art Farmer, Donald Byrd, and
        Blue Mitchell, among others.

1945 - The end of World War II (V-J Day).  A total of 1,154,720 African
        Americans have been inducted or drafted into the armed forces.
        Official records list 7,768 African American commissioned officers on
        August 31, 1945.   At the height of the conflict,  3,902 African
        American women (115 officers) were enrolled in the Women's Army
        Auxiliary Corps (WACS) and 68 were in the Navy auxiliary, the WAVES.
        The highest ranking African American women were Major Harriet M. West
        and Major Charity E. Adams.  Distinguished Unit Citations were awarded
        to the 969th Field Artillery Battalion, the 614th Tank Destroyer
        Battalion, and the 332nd Fighter Group (Tuskegee Airmen).

1956 - The Tennessee National Guard is sent to Clinton, Tennessee, to quell
        white mobs demonstrating against school integration.

1960 - Eric Dickerson is born.  He will become a professional football
player
        and will become NFC Rookie of the Year in 1983.  He will also set a
        NFL single-season rushing record of 2,105 yards in 1984.

1963 - Alabama Governor George Wallace blocks the integration of Tuskegee
        High School in Tuskegee, Alabama.

1965 - Lennox Lewis, former WBC boxing champ, is born.

1966 - Frank Robinson is named Most Valuable Player of the American League.

1971 - Cheryl White becomes the first African American woman jockey to win a
        sanctioned horse race.

1975 - Joseph W. Hatchett sworn in as first African American state supreme
        court justice in the South (Florida) in the twentieth century.

1978 - Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 home runs in 11 straight
        years.

1989 - Rev. Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through the Bensonhurst
        section of Brooklyn, New York.

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