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*                       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.

 

1894 - Eugene Jacques Bullard is born in Columbus, Georgia.  

            

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 

            attempt 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 succumbs to liver cancer in a Manhattan hospital.


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