* Today in Black History - September 5 *
1804 - Absalom Jones is ordained a priest in the Protestant Episcopal
Church.
1846 - John W. Cromwell is born. He will become the Secretary of the
American Negro Academy.
1859 - "Our Nig" by Harriet E. Wilson is published. It is the first
novel published in the United States by an African American
woman and will be lost to readers for years until reprinted
with a critical essay by noted African American scholar Henry
Louis Gates, Jr. in 1983.
1877 - African Americans from the Post-Civil-War South, led by
Benjamin 'Pap' Singleton, settle in Kansas and establish
towns like Nicodemus, to take advantage of free land offered
by the United States government through the Homestead Act of
1860.
1895 - George Washington Murray is elected to Congress from South
Carolina.
1916 - Novelist Frank Yerby is born in Augusta, Georgia. A student at
Fisk University and the University of Chicago, Yerby's early
short story "Health Card" will win the O. Henry short story
award. He will later turn to adventure novels and become a
best-selling author in the 1940's and 1950's with "The Foxes
of Harrow", "The Vixens" and many others. His later novels
will include "Goat Song", "The Darkness at Ingraham's Crest-
A Tale of the Slaveholding South", and "Devil Seed". In
total, Yerby will publish over 30 novels that sell over 20
million copies.
1960 - Cassius Clay of Louisville, Kentucky, wins the gold medal in
light heavyweight boxing at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy.
Clay will later change his name to Muhammad Ali and become
one of the great boxing champions in the world. In 1996, at
the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, Muhammad Ali will have
the honor of lighting the Olympic flame.
1960 - Leopold Sedar Senghor, poet, politician, is elected President
of Senegal.
1972 - Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway win a gold record -- for
their duet, "Where is the Love". The song gets to number
five on the pop music charts and is one of two songs for the
duo to earn gold. The other will be "The Closer I Get To You"
(1978).
1995 - O.J. Simpson jurors hear testimony that police detective Mark
Fuhrman had uttered a racist slur, and advocated the killing
of Blacks.
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