*                   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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