*		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 he joins the ancestors 
	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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