* 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 Hamilton Houston is born in Washington, DC. He will
become an attorney who will help play a role in dismantling
the Jim Crow laws and help train future Supreme Court
justice Thurgood Marshall. He will play a role in nearly
every civil rights case before the Supreme Court between
1930 and Brown v. Board of Education (1954). His brilliant
plan to use the inequality of "separate but equal" education
in the United States to attack and defeat Jim Crow
segregation was the master stroke that brought about the
landmark Brown decision. Unfortunately, he did not live to see
the victory before the Supreme Court. He will join the
ancestors on April 22, 1950.
1910 - Dorothy Leigh Maynor is born in Norfolk, Virginia. She will
become a renown soprano and will sing with all of the major
American and European orchestras. "Depuis le jour," from
Charpentier's "Louise," will become her signature piece,
guaranteed to provoke standing ovations. At the peak of her
career, she will perform with most of the major American
orchestras and will be one of the most sought-after and
highly paid singers in the concert world. Her recordings
will be bestsellers and she will be regularly heard on
popular radio shows. In 1942, she will marry the Rev. Shelby
Rooks, pastor of St. James Presbyterian Church in Harlem.
When her husband becomes ill, she will retire from
performing to care for him and become active in church
affairs. She will soon plan a venture that would resonate as
powerfully as her singing: founding a school for young black
artists. She will found the Harlem School of the Arts in
1964, which will offer its programs to students of all ages.
Most of the school's students will be of African American or
Latino cultural backgrounds, and tuition will be relatively
inexpensive in contrast to other similar educational
institutions in the United States. One of the school's first
ballet teachers, Arthur Mitchell, will found the Dance
Theater of Harlem in 1969. By 1979, when she will retire
from direction of the school, it will occupy a $2 million,
37,000-square-foot facility and enroll more than 1,000
students in college preparatory programs in performing and
visual arts. In 1975, after never being able to sing at New
York's Metropolitan Opera, she will become the first African
American to join its board of directors. She will join the
ancestors on February 19, 1996 in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
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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