*		    Today in Black History - September 5            *

1804 - Absalom Jones is ordained a priest in the Protestant Episcopal
	Church.

1846 - John W. Cromwell is born.  He will become the Secretary of the
	American Negro Academy.

1859 - "Our Nig" by Harriet E. Wilson is published.  It is the first
	novel published in the United States by an African American 
	woman and will be lost to readers for years until reprinted 
	with a critical essay by noted African American scholar Henry
	Louis Gates, Jr. in 1983.

1877 - African Americans from the Post-Civil-War South, led by 
	Benjamin 'Pap' Singleton, settle in Kansas and establish 
	towns like Nicodemus, to take advantage of free land offered
	by the United States government through the Homestead Act of
	1860.

1895 - George Washington Murray is elected to Congress from South 
	Carolina.

1916 - Novelist Frank Yerby is born in Augusta, Georgia. A student at
	Fisk University and the University of Chicago, Yerby's early 
	short story "Health Card" will win the O. Henry short story 
	award. He will later turn to adventure novels and become a 
	best-selling author in the 1940's and 1950's with "The Foxes 
	of Harrow", "The Vixens" and many others. His later novels 
	will include "Goat Song", "The Darkness at Ingraham's Crest-
	A Tale of the Slaveholding South", and "Devil Seed".  In 
	total, Yerby will publish over 30 novels that sell over 20 
	million copies.

1960 - Cassius Clay of Louisville, Kentucky, wins the gold medal in 
	light heavyweight boxing at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy.
	Clay will later change his name to Muhammad Ali and become 
	one of the great boxing champions in the world.  In 1996, at
	the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, Muhammad Ali will have
	the honor of lighting the Olympic flame.    

1960 - Leopold Sedar Senghor, poet, politician, is elected President
	of Senegal.

1972 - Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway win a gold record -- for 
	their duet, "Where is the Love".  The song gets to number 
	five on the pop music charts and is one of two songs for the
	duo to earn gold. The other will be "The Closer I Get To You"
	(1978).

1995 - O.J. Simpson jurors hear testimony that police detective Mark
	Fuhrman had uttered a racist slur, and advocated the killing 
	of Blacks.

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