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1906 - Never fully recovering from a bout of pneumonia in 1899, poet 

            and author Paul Laurence Dunbar joins the ancestors in Dayton,

            Ohio, at the age of 33.   He nonetheless produced three novels 

            (including "The Sport of the Gods"), three books of verse, 

            three collections of short stories, two unpublished  plays, 

            and lyric pieces set to music by Will Marion Cook.

 

1944 - Alice Walker is born In Eatonton, Georgia.  Best known for "The 

            Color Purple," which will win the American Book Award and the 

            Pulitzer Prize, she  will also write a variety of other 

            critically praised and award-winning works including poetry 

            and children's books and edit a book on Zora Neale Hurston, 

            whom she will credit as her role model. 

 

1944 - John Rozelle is born in St. Louis, Missouri.  He will become an 

            artist and professor at the Art Institute of Chicago.  His 

            work reflects his self identification as an "African American 

            sentinel,"  or visual historian, guide, and advocate of  

            contemporary African American culture. 

 

1951 - Dennis "DT" Thomas is born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He will

            become a rhythm and blues musician with the group, 'Kool & the

            Gang.' 

 

1953 - Gary Franks is born in Waterbury, Connecticut.  In 1990, he 

            will be elected to Congress from Connecticut's 5th District 

            and become the first African American Republican congressman 

            since Oscar De Priest left office in 1934. 

 

1962 - Jamaica signs an agreement with Great Britain to become 

            independent.

 

1964 - Arthur Ashe, Jr. becomes the first African American on a United

            States Davis Cup Team. 

 

1964 - A speech by U.S. Representative Martha Griffiths in Congress, 

            on sex discrimination, results in civil rights protection for 

            women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

 

1971 - Satchel Paige becomes the first African American elected to

            professional baseball's Hall of Fame for his career in the 

            Negro Leagues.


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