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*		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 Thelonious 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.

1942 - Richard Roundtree is born in New Rochelle, New York. He 
	will attend college on a football scholarship but will 
	later give up athletics to pursue an acting career. 
	After touring as a model with the Ebony Fashion Fair, he 
	will join the Negro Ensemble Company's acting workshop 
	program in 1967. He will make his film debut in	1970's 
	"What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?," but is still an 
	unknown when filmmaker Gordon Parks, Sr. cast him as 
	Shaft. The role will shoot Roundtree to instant fame, 
	launching the blaxploitation genre and proving so 
	successful at the box office that it helped save MGM 
	from the brink of bankruptcy. Thanks to the film's 
	popularity -- as well as its two sequels, 1972's 
	"Shaft's Big Score!" and the following year's "Shaft in
	Africa," and even a short-lived television series. He 
	will also appear in films including the 1974 disaster 
	epic "Earthquake," 1975's "Man Friday" and the 
	blockbuster 1977 TV miniseries "Roots."

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, joins the
	ancestors 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 becomes the archbishop of Cape Town, 
	two years after winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his 
	nonviolent opposition to apartheid in South Africa. As 
	archbishop, he was the first Black to head South 
	Africa's Anglican church. In 1948, South Africa's white
	minority government institutionalized its policy of 
	racial segregation and white supremacy known as 
	apartheid--Afrikaans for "apartness." Eighty percent of
	the country's land was set aside for white use, and 
	black Africans entering this territory required special 
	passes. Blacks, who had no representation in the 
	government, were subjected to different labor laws and 
	educational standards than whites and lived in extreme 
	poverty while white South Africans prospered.

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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