* Today in Black History - October 2 *
1800 - Nat Turner is born in Southampton, Virginia. Believing himself
called by God to free his fellow bondsmen, Turner will become
a freedom fighter leader of one of the most famous slave revolts,
resulting in the death of scores of whites and involving 60 to 80
slaves.
1833 - The New York Anti-Slavery Society is organized.
1898 - Otis J. Rene' is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. With his younger
brother Leon, he will move to Los Angeles, California, and
establish Exclusive and Excelsior Records in the 1930's. By the
mid-1940's, the brothers will be leading independent record
producers whose artists will include Nat King Cole, Herb Jeffries,
and Johnny Otis.
1929 - Moses Gunn is born in St. Louis, Missouri. He will become an actor
and will appear in "Amityville II," "Shaft," and "Good Times."
1932 - Maury Wills is born. He will become a professional baseball player
and shortstop for the Dodger organization. He will become the
National League Most Valuable Player in 1962.
1936 - Johnnie Cochran is born. He will become a criminal defense attorney
and will be best known for his defense of Black Panther Party member
Geronimo Pratt and ex-NFL superstar O.J. Simpson.
1958 - The Republic of Guinea gains independence under the leadership of
Sekou Toure.
1965 - Bishop Harold Robert Perry of Lake Charles, Louisiana, is named
auxiliary bishop of New Orleans by Pope Paul IV.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American member of
the United States Supreme Court when he is sworn in by Chief
Justice Earl Warren. As chief counsel for the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in
the 1940s and '50s, Marshall was the architect and executor of
the legal strategy that ended the era of official racial
segregation. The great-grandson of a slave, Marshall was born
in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1908. After being rejected from the
University of Maryland Law School on account of his race, he
was accepted at all-black Howard University in Washington,
DC. At Howard, he studied under the tutelage of civil liberties
lawyer Charles H. Houston and in 1933 graduated first in his
class. In 1936, he joined the legal division of the NAACP, of
which Houston was director, and two years later succeeded his
mentor in the organization's top legal post.
1967 - Robert H. Lawrence, who was named the first African American
astronaut, joins the ancestors after being killed in a plane
crash before his first mission.
1968 - Bob Gibson, of the St. Louis Cardinals, sets a world series
record of 17 strikeouts.
1980 - Larry Holmes retains the WBC heavyweight boxing title defeating
Muhammad Ali.
1981 - Hazel Scott, renown jazz singer and pianist, joins the ancestors
at the age of 61.
1986 - The United States Senate overrides President Ronald Reagan's
veto of legislation imposing economic sanctions against South
Africa. The override is seen as the culmination of efforts by
Trans-Africa's Randall Robinson, Rep. Mickey Leland, and others
begun almost two years earlier with Robinson's arrest before
the South African Embassy in Washington, DC.
1989 - "Jump Start" premiers in 40 newspapers in the United States. The
comic strip is the creation of 26-year-old Robb Armstrong, the
youngest African American to have a syndicated comic strip.
He follows in the footsteps of Morrie Turner, the creator of
"Wee Pals," the first African American syndicated comic strip.
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