* Today in Black History - September 4 *
1781 - California's second pueblo near San Gabriel, Nuestra Senora
la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula (Los Angeles,
California) is founded by forty-four settlers, of whom at
least twenty-six were descendants of Africans. Among the
settlers of African descent, according to H.H. Bancroft's
authoritative History of California, were "Joseph Moreno,
Mulatto, 22 years old, wife a Mulattress, five children;
Manuel Cameron, Mulatto, 30 years old, wife Mulattress;
Antonio Mesa, Negro, 38 years old, wife Mulattress, six
children; Jose Antonio Navarro, Mestizo, 42 years old,
wife, Mulattress, three children; Basil Rosas, Indian, 68
years old, wife, Mulattress, six children."
1848 - Louis H. Latimer is born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. A one-
time draftsman and preparer of patents for Alexander Graham
Bell, he will later join the United States Electric Company,
where he will patent a carbon filament for the incandescent
lamp. When he joins the ancestors, he will be eulogized by
his co-workers as a valuable member of the "Edison Pioneers,"
a group of men and women who advanced electrical light usage
in the United States.
1865 - Bowie State College (now University) is established in Bowie,
Maryland.
1875 - The Clinton Massacre occurs in Clinton, Mississippi. Twenty
to thirty African Americans are killed over a two-day period.
1908 - Richard Wright, who will become the author of the best-
selling "Native Son," "Uncle Tom's Children," and "Black Boy,"
is born near Natchez, Mississippi. Wright will be among the
first African American writers to protest white treatment of
African Americans.
1942 - Merald 'Bubba' Knight is born in Atlanta, Georgia. He will
become a singer with his sister Gladys Knight as part of her
background group, The Pips. They will record many songs
including "Midnight Train to Georgia," "Best Thing That Ever
Happened to Me," "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," "Every
Beat of My Heart," "Letter Full of Tears," and "The Way We
Were/Try to Remember" medley.
1953 - Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs is born in New York City. He will
become an actor and will star in "Alien Nation," "Rituals,"
"Roots," "Welcome Back, Kotter," "Quiet Fire," "L.A. Heat,"
and "L.A. Vice."
1957 - The governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out the National
Guard to stop nine African American students from entering
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Three weeks
later, President Dwight Eisenhower sends a force of 1,000
U.S. Army paratroopers (The 101st Airborne) to Little Rock to
guarantee the peaceful desegregation of the public school.
1960 - Damon Kyle Wayans is born in New York City. He will become a
stand-up comedian, writer, and actor who will begin his career
as a stand-up comic in 1982. His first film appearance will be
a brief cameo as an effeminate hotel employee in the 1984
Eddie Murphy film "Beverly Hills Cop." He will work on
"Saturday Night Live" as a featured performer, before being
fired for playing his character as a flamboyant gay cop
instead of a straight cop. He will go on to do the television
show "In Living Color" from 1990 to 1992, part of a team that
will be nominated for Emmy Awards all three years. In 1996, he
will produce "Waynehead," a cartoon for the WB network, loosely
based on his own childhood growing up in a large family,
starring a poor boy with a clubfoot. It will only last a season
due to poor ratings. From 1997 to 1998, he will be the
executive producer of "413 Hope St.," a short-lived drama on
the FOX network starring Richard Roundtree and Jesse L. Martin.
From 2001 until 2005, he will star in the ABC sitcom "My Wife
and Kids." Before that, he will star in the films "The Last Boy
Scout," "Major Payne" and "The Great White Hype." He will also
write and star in the film "Blankman." In 1999, his New York
Times bestselling book "Bootleg" will be published. It will be
a humorous compilation of his observations about family,
children, marriage, and politics.
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