*		Today in Black History - September 8         *

1866 - Charles Harrison Mason is born on the Prior Farm near 
	Memphis, Tennessee.  He will be inspired by the 
	autobiography of evangelist Amanda Berry Smith in 1893,
	and will found and organize the "Church of God in 
	Christ," in Memphis, Tennessee in 1907.  

1875 - The governor of Mississippi requests federal troops to
	protect African American voters. Attorney General 
	Edward Pierrepont refuses the request and says "the 
	whole public are tired of these annual autumnal 
	outbreaks in the South..."

1925 - Ossian Sweet, a prominent Detroit doctor, is arrested 
	on murder charges after shots are fired into a mob in 
	front of the Sweet home in a previously all-white 
	area.  Sweet is defended by Clarence Darrow, who won 
	an acquittal in the second trial.

1940 - Willie Tyler is born in Red Level, Alabama.  He will 
	become a well known ventriloquist along with his 
	wooden partner, Lester.

1956 - Maurice Cheeks is born.  He will become a professional
	basketball player and will play guard for the New York
	Knicks and the Philadelphia '76ers. 

1957 - Tennis champion, Althea Gibson, becomes the first 
	African American athlete to win a U.S. national tennis
	championship.

1965 - Dorothy Dandridge, nominated for an Oscar for her 
	performance in "Carmen Jones," joins the ancestors at 
	the age of 41 in Hollywood, California.

1968 - Black Panther Huey Newton is convicted of voluntary 
	manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an Oakland 
	policeman.  He will later begin a 2 to l5-year jail 
	sentence.

1968 - Saundra Williams is crowned the first Miss Black 
	America in a contest held exclusively for African 
	American women in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

1973 - Hank Aaron sets the record for most Home Runs in one 
	league (709). 

1975 - The city of Boston begins court ordered citywide busing
	of public schools amid scattered incidents of violence. 

1981 - Roy Wilkins, longtime and second executive director of 
	the NAACP, joins the ancestors.

1990 - Marjorie Judith Vincent of Illinois is selected as Miss
	America in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  The Haitian 
	native, a third-year law student at Duke University, 
	is the fourth woman of African descent to become Miss 
	America.

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