*                   Today in Black History - September 3              *

1783 - Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church,
        purchases his freedom with his earnings as a self-employed
        teamster.

1838 - Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, disguised as a sailor,
        escapes from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland to New Bedford,
        Massachusetts via New York City.  He will take the name Douglass,
        after the hero of Sir Walter Scott's poem "Lady of the Lake".

1865 - The Union Army commander in South Carolina orders the Freedmen's
        Bureau personnel to stop seizing land.

1868 - Henry McNeal Turner delivers a speech before the Georgia
        legislature defending African Americans' rights to hold state
        office.  The lower house of the Georgia legislature, rules
        that African Americans were ineligible to hold office, and
        expels twenty-eight representatives. Ten days later the
        senate expels three African Americans.  Congress will refuse
        to re-admit the state to the Union until the legislature seats
        the African American representatives.

1891 - John Stephens Durham, assistant editor of the Philadelphia Evening
        Bulletin, is named minister to Haiti.

1891 - Cotton pickers organize a union and stage a strike for higher wages
        in Texas.

1895 - Charles Houston is born.  He will become a leader of the the NAACP.

1910 - Dorothy Maynor is born in Norfolk, Virginia.  She will become a
        renown soprano and will sing with all of the major American and
        European orchestras.  She will found the Harlem School of the Arts.

1918 - Five African American soldiers are hanged for alleged participation
        in the Houston riot of 1917.

1919 - The Lincoln Motion Picture Company, owned by African Americans Noble
        Johnson and Clarence Brooks, releases its first feature-length film,
        "A Man's Duty".

1970 - Representatives from 27 African nations, Caribbean nations, four
        South American countries, Australia, and the United States meet in
        Atlanta, Georgia, for the first Congress of African People.

1970 - Billy Williams ends the longest National League consecutive streak
        at 1,117 games.

1974 - NBA guard, Oscar Robinson, retires from professional basketball.

1984 - A new South African constitution comes into effect, setting up a
        three-chamber, racially divided parliament -  White, Indian and
        Colored (mixed race) people.

1990 - Jonathan A. Rodgers becomes president of CBS's Television Stations
        Division, the highest-ranking African American to date in network
        television.  Rodgers had been general manager of WBBM-TV, CBS's
        Chicago station.

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