* Today in Black History - September 3 *
1783 - Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church,
purchases his freedom with his earnings as a self-employed
teamster.
1838 - Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, disguised as a sailor,
escapes from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland to New Bedford,
Massachusetts via New York City. He will take the name Douglass,
after the hero of Sir Walter Scott's poem "Lady of the Lake".
1865 - The Union Army commander in South Carolina orders the Freedmen's
Bureau personnel to stop seizing land.
1868 - Henry McNeal Turner delivers a speech before the Georgia
legislature defending African Americans' rights to hold state
office. The lower house of the Georgia legislature, rules
that African Americans were ineligible to hold office, and
expels twenty-eight representatives. Ten days later the
senate expels three African Americans. Congress will refuse
to re-admit the state to the Union until the legislature seats
the African American representatives.
1891 - John Stephens Durham, assistant editor of the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin, is named minister to Haiti.
1891 - Cotton pickers organize a union and stage a strike for higher wages
in Texas.
1895 - Charles Houston is born. He will become a leader of the the NAACP.
1910 - Dorothy Maynor is born in Norfolk, Virginia. She will become a
renown soprano and will sing with all of the major American and
European orchestras. She will found the Harlem School of the Arts.
1918 - Five African American soldiers are hanged for alleged participation
in the Houston riot of 1917.
1919 - The Lincoln Motion Picture Company, owned by African Americans Noble
Johnson and Clarence Brooks, releases its first feature-length film,
"A Man's Duty".
1970 - Representatives from 27 African nations, Caribbean nations, four
South American countries, Australia, and the United States meet in
Atlanta, Georgia, for the first Congress of African People.
1970 - Billy Williams ends the longest National League consecutive streak
at 1,117 games.
1974 - NBA guard, Oscar Robinson, retires from professional basketball.
1984 - A new South African constitution comes into effect, setting up a
three-chamber, racially divided parliament - White, Indian and
Colored (mixed race) people.
1990 - Jonathan A. Rodgers becomes president of CBS's Television Stations
Division, the highest-ranking African American to date in network
television. Rodgers had been general manager of WBBM-TV, CBS's
Chicago station.
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