* 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
Thelonius 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 proved to be his most fertile. He
will be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972.
1937 - Oily Wilson is born in Saint Louis, Mo. 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, actor ("Shaft's" John Shaft, "Roots,"
"Generations'" Daniel Reubens), is born.
1949 - Gloria Gaynor, singer ("I Will Survive", "Never Can Say
Goodbye"), is born.
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, dies 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 is enthroned as Archbishop of Cape Town,
South Africa. He is the first black head of South Africa's
Anglicans.
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.
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