* 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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