*		  Today in Black History - October 8               *

1775 - A council of general officers decides to bar slaves and free 
	African Americans from serving in the Continental Army.

1930 - Faith Ringgold is born in New York City. She will become a 
	multimedia artist whose paintings, face masks, fabric and soft 
	sculptures, and quilts will earn her praise for her 
	reaffirmation of African American women's values and unique 
	perspective. 

1941 - Rev. Jesse L. Jackson is born in Greenville, South Carolina.  
	He will be a civil rights leader and founder of Operation PUSH 
	(People United to Save Humanity) in 1971, an organization that 
	will focus attention on the economic disparity between whites 
	and African Americans. In 1988, he will be a candidate for the 
	Democratic presidential nomination.

1950 - Robert "Kool" Bell is born. He will become a rhythm and blues 
	singer and will become the leader of his own group, "Kool & 
	the Gang."

1963 - The Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya.

1969 - Police officers and African Americans exchange sniper fire on 
	Chicago's West Side.  One youth is killed and nine policemen 
	are injured.

1992 - The Nobel Prize for literature is awarded to West Indies poet, 
	Derek Walcott.

1993 - The U.N. General Assembly lifted almost all its remaining 
	economic sanctions against South Africa, begun in the 1960s and 
	built up in subsequent years because of Pretoria's policy of 
	racial apartheid.

1999 - Laila Ali, the 21-year-old daughter of Muhammad Ali, makes her
	professional boxing debut by knocking out opponent April Fowler 
	31 seconds after the opening bell in Verona, New  York.

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