* Today in Black History - October 7 *
1821 - William Still is born in Burlington County, New Jersey. He
will become an abolitionist and will be involved in the anti-
slavery movement working for the Pennsylvania Society for the
Abolition of Slavery. After the Civil War, he will chronicle
the personal accounts of former runaway slaves, who had
traveled on the Underground Railroad. His publication,
"Underground Railroad," published in 1872, will provide a
revealing look into the activities of the flight of fugitive
slaves. Still will be a civil rights activist, researcher
and writer, until he joins the ancestors in 1902.
1856 - Moses Fleetwood Walker is born in Steubenville, Ohio. He will
become a baseball player when he and his brother Welday join
the first baseball team at Oberlin College. He will become a
professional baseball player after leaving Oberlin when he
joins the Toledo Blue Stockings of the Northwestern League in
1883. When he plays his first game for the Blue Stockings in
the American Association the next year, he will become the
first African American to play in the major leagues. After the
1884 season, no other African Americans will play in the major
leagues until Jackie Robinson in 1947.
1873 - Henry E. Hayne, secretary of state, is accepted as a student at
the University of South Carolina. Scores of African-Americans
will attend the university in 1874 and 1875.
1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba.
1888 - Sargent C. Johnson is born in Boston, Massachusetts. He will
be a pioneering artist of the Harlem Renaissance, known for
his wood, cast stone, and ceramic sculptures. Among his most
famous works will be "Forever Free" and "Mask. "
1889 - Clarence Muse is born in Baltimore, Maryland. He will become a
pioneer film and stage actor. He will appear in the second
talking movie ever made and go on to appear in a total of 219
films. His career will span over 60 years.
1891 - Archibald John Motley, Jr. is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
He will become one of the more renowned painters of the 1920's
and 1930's.
1897 - Elijah Poole is born in Sandersville, Georgia. He will become
better known as The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, one of the most
influential leaders in the Nation of Islam. Poole will be
trained by Master Wallace Fard Muhammad, founder of the Nation
of Islam, and will lead the organization to become the largest
African American movement since Garveyism until he joins the
ancestors on February 25, 1975.
1931 - Desmond Mpilo Tutu is born in Klerksdorp, South Africa. He
will become the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1984, and Archbishop
of the Anglican Church (First Anglican bishop of African descent)
of Johannesburg, South Africa.
1934 - LeRoi Jones is born in Newark, New Jersey. He will be better
known as Amiri Baraka, influential playwright, author, and
critic of the African American experience.
1954 - Marian Anderson becomes the first African American singer hired
by the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York.
1981 - Egypt's parliament names Vice President Hosni Mubarak to succeed
the assassinated Anwar Sadat.
1984 - Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader.
1985 - Lynette Woodward, is chosen as the first woman to play with the
Harlem Globetrotters.
1989 - Ricky Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games).
1993 - Writer, Toni Morrison, is awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
1995 - Coach Eddie Robinson, of Grambling State University, wins his
400th game and sets a NCAA record that clearly establishes him
as a legend.
1997 - MCA Records offers, for sale, fifteen previously unreleased
tracks of legendary guitarist, Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix joined
the ancestors in 1970.
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