*                   Today in Black History - September 7             *

1800 - The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is dedicated in New
        York City.

1859 - John Merrick, co-organizer of The North Carolina Mutual Life
        Insurance Company, is born.

1914 - Jean Blackwell Hutson is born in Summerfield, Florida. She will
        be the longtime curator and chief of the Schomburg Center for
        Research in Black Culture in New York City, the largest
        collection on the culture and literature of people of African
        descent.

1917 - Jacob Lawrence is born in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  He will
        become one of the leading painters in chronicling African American
        history and urban life.  Among his most celebrated works will be
        the historical panels "The Life of Toussaint L'ouverture" and "The
        Life of Harriet Tubman."

1930 - Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins, jazz saxophonist, is born in
        New York City.  Rollins will grow up in a neighborhood where
        Thelonius Monk, Coleman Hawkins (his early idol), and Bud Powell
        were playing.  After recording with the latter in 1949, Rollins
        begins recording with Miles Davis in 1951.  During the next three
        years he composes three of his best-known tunes, "Oleo," "Doxy,"
        and "Airegin," and continues to work with Davis, Charlie Parker,
        and others.  Following his withdrawal from music in 1954 to cure a
        heroin addiction, Rollins re-emerges with the Clifford Brown-Max
        Roach quintet in 1955, and the next four years prove to be his most
        fertile.  He will be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972.

1934 - James Milton Campbell, Jr. is born in Inverness, Mississippi. He
        will becomes a blues guitar artist better known as "Little Milton."
        He started his career playing in blues bands when he was a teenager.
        His first recording was accompanying pianist Willie Love in the
        early 50s. He then appeared under his own name on three singles
        issued on Sam Phillips' Sun label under the guidance of Ike Turner.
        His vocal style will be in the mould of Bobby "Blues" Bland and
        "T-Bone" Walker.  His hits will include "We're Gonna Make It,"
        "Who's Cheating Who," "Grits Ain't Groceries," and "That's What
        Love Will Do."

1937 - Olly Wilson is born in St. Louis, Missouri.  He will become a
        classical composer whose works will be played by the Boston
        Symphony Orchestra, Oakland City Philharmonic, San Francisco
        Symphony Orchestra, and many others.

1949 - Gloria Gaynor is born in Newark New Jersey.  She will become a singer
        and will be best known for her 1979 hit, "I Will Survive".  The hit
        tops the charts in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

1954 - Integration of public schools begins in Washington, DC and Baltimore,
        Maryland.

1972 - Curtis Mayfield earns a gold record for his album, "Superfly", from
        the movie of the same name.  The LP contained the hits, "Freddie's
        Dead" and "Superfly" -- both songs were also million record sellers.

1980 - Bessie A. Buchanan, the first African American woman to be elected to
        the New York State legislature, dies in New York City.  Before her
        political career, she was a Broadway star who had leading roles in
        "Shuffle Along" and "Showboat".

1986 - Bishop Desmond Tutu is enthroned as Archbishop of Cape Town, South
        Africa. He is the first black head of South Africa's Anglican Church.

1987 - Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins
        University Hospital, leads a surgical team that successfully separates
        Siamese twins who had been joined at the head.

1994 - U.S. Marines begin training on a Puerto Rican island amid talk in
        Washington of a U.S.-led intervention in Haiti.

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