* Today in Black History - September 12 *
1913 - James Cleveland Owens is born in Oakville, Alabama. He will
be better known as Jesse Owens, one of the greatest track
and field stars in history. Owens will achieve fame at
the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, where he will win
four gold medals, dispelling Hitler's notion of the
superior Aryan race and the inferiority of black athletes.
Among his honors will be the Medal of Freedom, presented
to him by President Gerald Ford in 1976.
1935 - Richard Hunt is born in Chicago, Illinois. A graduate of
the Art Institute of Chicago, he will later study in Europe
and be considered one of the leading sculptors in the
United States. His work will be shown extensively in the
United States and abroad and his sculptures will be
collected by the National Museum of American Art, the
Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, and the Museum of the Twentieth Century in Vienna.
1944 - Barry White is born in Galveston, Texas. He will become a
singer and songwriter. Some of his hits will be "I'm Gonna
Love You Just A Little More Baby", "Can't Get Enough Of Your
Love Babe", and "Love's Theme [with Love Unlimited
Orchestra]. He will join the ancestors on July 4, 2003 from
complications of high blood pressure and kidney disease.
1947 - The first African American baseball player in the major
leagues, Jackie Robinson, is named National League Rookie of
the Year.
1956 - African American students are barred from entering a Clay,
Kentucky elementary school. They will enter the school under
National Guard protection on September 17.
1958 - The United States Supreme Court orders a Little Rock, Arkansas
high school to admit African American students.
1964 - Ralph Boston of the United States, sets the long jump record
at 27' 4".
1974 - The beginning of court-ordered busing to achieve racial
integration in Boston's public schools is marred by violence
in South Boston.
1974 - Eugene A. Marino, SSJ, is consecrated as the first African
American Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in the United States.
He assumes his duties as auxiliary bishop of Washington, DC.
1974 - Haile Selassie is deposed by military leaders after fifty-eight
years as the ruling monarch of Ethiopia.
1977 - Black South African student and civil rights leader Steven Biko
joins the ancestors after succumbing to severe physical abuse
while in police detention, triggering an international outcry.
1980 - Lillian Randolph joins the ancestors at the age of 65. She had
been a film actress and had starred on television on the "Amos
'n' Andy Show" and in the mini-series "Roots".
1984 - Michael Jordan signs a seven-year contract to play basketball
with the Chicago Bulls. 'Air' Jordan will become an NBA star
for the Bulls and help make the team a dominant force in the
NBA.
1984 - Dwight Gooden, of the New York Mets, sets a rookie strikeout
record by striking out his 251st batter of the season. He
also leads the Mets to a 2-0 shutout over the Pittsburgh
Pirates.
1986 - The National Council of Negro Women sponsors its first Black
Family Reunion at the National Mall in Washington, DC. The
reunion, which will grow to encompass dozens of cities and
attract over one million people annually, is held to
celebrate and applaud the traditional values, history, and
culture of the African American family.
1989 - David Dinkins, Manhattan borough president, wins the New York
City's Democratic mayoral primary, defeating incumbent Mayor
Ed Koch and two other candidates on his way to becoming the
city's first African American mayor.
1992 - Mae C. Jemison becomes the first woman of color to go into
space when she travels on the space shuttle Endeavour.
1998 - Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs becomes the fourth major
league baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a single
season.
1999 - Serena and Venus Williams (sisters) take home the U.S. Open
Women's Doubles Championship trophy. After losing the first
set, they bounce back to win the remaining two sets against
Chandra Rubin of the U.S. and Sandrine Testud of France. The
Williams sisters are the first African-Americans to win a
U.S. Open Doubles Championship.
2000 - James Perkins becomes the first African American mayor of
Selma, Alabama, defeating long-time mayor Joe Smitherman
with 60% of the vote. Smitherman had been mayor for thirty
six years. He was the mayor of Selma in 1965 when sheriff's
deputies and state troopers attacked hundreds of voting
rights marchers on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge in what
became known as "Bloody Sunday."
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