*	      Today in Black History - September 1         *

1867 - Robert T. Freeman becomes the first African American 
	to graduate from Harvard Dental School.

1875 - White Democrats attacked Republicans at Yazoo City, 
	Mississippi. One white and three African Americans
	are killed.

1912 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English-born composer of 
	Hiawatha's Wedding Feast and professor of music at 
	Trinity College of Music in London, joins the ancestors 
	in Croyden, England. He will be the most important 
	Black composer of his day and will tour the United States 
	three times, where he will play with Will Marion Cook, 
	Clarence Cameron White, and collaborate with Paul 
	Laurence Dunbar in setting several of his poems to 
	music.

1925 - Rosa Cuthbert (later Guy) is born in Diego Martin, 
	Trinidad. She will leave Trinidad, joining her parents 
	in America in 1932. During World War II she will join 
	the American Negro Theatre. She will study theatre and 
	writing at New York University. Most of her books will be
	about the dependability of family members that care and 
	love each other. She will be one of the founders of The 
	Harlem Writers guild (1950). Her works will include: 
	"Bird at My Window" (1966), "Children of Longing" (1971), 
	"The Friends" (1973), "Ruby" (1976), "Edith Jackson" 
	(1978), "The Disappearance" (1979), "Mirror of Her Own" 
	(1981), "A Measure of Time (1983), and "New Guys Around 
	the Block" (1983), "Paris, Pee Wee and Big Dog" (1984), 
	"My Love, My Love, or the Peasant Girl" (1985), "And I 
	Heard a Bird Sing (1987), "The Ups and Downs of Carl 
	Davis III (1989) and "The Sun, the Sea, A Touch of the 
	Wind (1995). She will join the ancestors on June 3, 2012.

1937 - Ron O'Neal is born in Utica, New York. He will become an 
	actor and will star in movies during the 1970's and be 
	best known for his role in "Superfly." He will join the
	ancestors on January 14, 2014 after succumbing to
	pancreatic cancer.

1948 - William T. Coleman is appointed by Justice Frankfurter as a 
	clerk to the U.S. Supreme Court, the first African 
	American to hold the position. A Harvard Law School 
	graduate and Army Air Corps veteran, Coleman will again 
	enter public service, first as president of the NAACP 
	Legal Defense and Education Fund and, in 1975, as 
	Secretary of Transportation under President Gerald Ford.

1970 - Dr. Hugh S. Scott of Washington, DC, becomes the first
	African American superintendent of schools in a major U.S.
	city.

1971 - The Pittsburgh Pirates field an all African American team 
	in a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies.

1973 - George Foreman knocks out Jose Roman in the first round to
	retain his heavyweight title. 

1975 - General Daniel ("Chappie") James Jr. is promoted to the 
	rank of four-star general and named commander-in-chief of
	the North American Air Defense Command. He is the first 
	African American to achieve this rank.

1977 - Ethel Waters, singer and actress, joins the ancestors in 
	Chatsworth, California at the age of 80. She was the 
	first African American entertainer to move from vaudeville
	to 'white' entertainment. She starred in many movies such
	as "Something Special" (1971), "Carib Gold" (1955), "The 
	Member of the Wedding" (1952), "Pinky" (1949), "Cabin in
	the Sky" (1943), "Cairo" (1942), "Tales of Manhattan" 
	(1942), "Black Musical Featurettes, V. 1" (1929),  Short 
	Subjects V. 1" (1929),  and "On With the Show" (1929).  
	She also was in the first network show to feature an 
	African American actress as the star (The Beulah Show-
	1950).

1979 - Hazel W. Johnson becomes the first African American woman 
	to attain general officer rank in American military 
	history. Under her tenure as Chief, the Army Nurse Corps
	continued to improve standards of education and training.
	The Army Nurse Corps Standards of Nursing Practice were 
	published as an official Department of the Army Pamphlet 
	(DA PAM 40-5). She received the Distinguished Service
	Medal, Legion Of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, and 
	the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster among 
	her awards and honors.

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