* Today in Black History - September 6 *
1826 - John Brown Russwurm graduates from Bowdoin College. While many
sources consider him to be the first African American in
America to graduate from college, he was preceded by Edward
Jones (B.A. Amherst College - August 23, 1826) and Alexander
Lucius Twilight (B.A. Middlebury College - 1823).
1848 - National Black Convention meets in Cleveland, Ohio with some
seventy delegates. Frederick Douglass is elected president
of the convention.
1865 - Thaddeus Stevens, powerful U.S. congressman, urges confiscation
of estates of Confederate leaders and the distribution of land
to adult freedmen in forty-acre lots.
1866 - Frederick Douglass becomes the first African American delegate
to a national political convention.
1876 - A race riot occurs in Charleston, South Carolina.
1892 - George "Little Chocolate" Dixon beats Jack Skelly in New Orleans
to win the world featherweight title. While some African American
citizens celebrate for two days, the New Orleans Times-Democrat
says, "It was a mistake to match a Negro and a white man, to
bring the races together on any terms of equality even in the
prize ring."
1905 - The Atlanta Life Insurance Company is established by A.F. Herndon.
1930 - Leander Jay Shaw, Jr. is born in Salem, Virginia. He will become
a justice of the Florida State Supreme Court in 1983 and, in
1990, the chief justice, a first in Florida and the second
African American chief justice in any state supreme court.
1966 - A racially motivated civil disturbance occurs in Atlanta, Georgia.
1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson names Walter E. Washington,
commissioner and "unofficial" mayor of Washington, DC.
1968 - The Kingdom of Swaziland achieves full independence from Great
Britain as a constitutional monarchy.
1982 - Willie Stargell, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, sees his uniform,
number 8, retired by the Bucs. It is the fourth Pirate player's
uniform to be so honored. The other three belonged to Roberto
Clemente (#21), Honus Wagner (#33) and Pie Traynor (#20).
1988 - Lee Roy Young becomes the first African American Texas Ranger in
the police force's 165-year history. Young is a 14-year veteran
of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
1989 - The International Amateur Athletic Federation bans Ben Johnson
of Canada from competition, after he tests positive for steroids.
He is also stripped of all of his track records.
1989 - The National Party, the governing party of South Africa, loses
nearly a quarter of its parliamentary seats to far-right and
anti-apartheid rivals, its worst setback in four decades.
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